This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between provision and utilization of security information for the maintenance of law and order in Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 2550 police officers serving in Rivers State. A sample of 486 police officers were used for the study using simple random sampling technique. A researcher made questionnaire entitled “Provision and Utilization of Security Information for Maintenance of Law and Order Questionnaire (PUSIMLOQ) was used in collecting data for the study. The instrument was face validated by three experts. Internal consistency reliability was conducted for the instrument and a coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used in answering the research questions and in testing the hypotheses. The finding of the study indicated that there is relationship between provision of security information and utilization for maintenance of law and order in Rivers’ State. It was recommended among others that citizens should readily provide security information to police for the maintenance of law and order in Rivers State.
Citation: Udumukwu. I J. and Wegwu B.J. (2022) Provision and Utilization of Security Information by Intelligence Agencies for the Maintenance of Law and Order in Rivers State, International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, Vol.8, No.3, pp.60-68
Keywords: Law, Order, Provision, Rivers State, Utilization, intelligence agencies, security information
