The police in Katsina State have arrested various criminal suspects including cattle rustlers, cable vandals, and car thieves, attributing the crime reduction rate in the state to support offered by the people of the state.

Speaking during a press conference at the command headquarters on Saturday, November 11, the state Commissioner of Police, Besan Gwana appreciated the people of the state and urged them not to relent in assisting the police in combating crime in the state.

Gwana said a total of 29 suspects were paraded for various criminal offences within the past one week in Katsina.

The suspects paraded include three car thieves, two armed robbers, telecommunications cable vandals, drugs trafficking syndicate, and five-man gang of cattle rustlers from Niger Republic.

Weapons including two magazine ripples, bows and arrows, and locally made guns were recovered from the suspects.