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The meeting aims at bringing together personnel of security agencies and civil society to dialogue on the relationship that exists between them. Undoubtedly, the relationship is usually described as frosty, characterized by fear, uncertainty, suspicion and mistrust, hence, our intervention is targeted at creating and increasing the cooperation and understanding between security agencies and civilian citizens to jointly combat crime and make the environment safe for all. The major goal of the town hall meeting on the one hand, is that personnel of security agencies are enabled to understand the importance of a good and respectful cooperation with citizens in order to curb terror and crime, uphold democratic processes and to strengthen democracy. On the other hand, civilian citizens are enabled to understand their role in cooperating with and providing credible information to security agencies. The town hall meeting is part of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s support to the Security Sector Reform in Nigeria by promoting productive dialogue, information and experience sharing between security agencies and citizens, in order to increase the trust and confidence of Nigerian citizens in the security forces. This program is funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.