By Linus Aleke
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Wednesday said, it had concluded arrangements to train its personnel across the federation on election security.
The AIG zone 7, AIG Kayode Egbetokun, said, this during his one-day familiarization visit to FCT Police Command.
He said that the training is billed to take place, at the Police Zonal formations in the country.
According to him, “Aside from being the lead agency in internal security, the Nigeria Police Force is also the lead agency in election security management as stipulated in the relevant sections of the Electoral Act 2020. There is room for improvement. Modern policing is intelligence-led, community-based and technology-driven. We must therefore work harder to enhance our intelligence capacity. We must improve on visibility policing”.
The AIG said the recent deployment of newly passed out recruit constables is a big boost in this regard, adding, “We must sustain strategic partnership with other security agencies and other stakeholders”.
While tasking officers and men of the command to improve traffic control within the FCT, AIG Egbetokun, said,
traffic officers must be on their toes to ensure traffic flows within the FCT.
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He charged personnel of FCT Police Command to engage the local communities more in the policing of the communities.
“There is no doubt that the job of policing in Nigeria is a challenging one. From my experience, however, policing in the FCT is both challenging and interesting. The interesting part of it, is the way the challenges are being tackled. Policing anywhere is interesting when you are working hard and getting results,” he concluded.
The Commissioner of Police, FCT Police Command, CP Sadiq Idris Abubakar, said, the FCT Command under his leadership is committed to ensuring that the policing ideals of the Inspector-General of Police which has been effectively canvassed by the AIG in charge of Zone 7 are clearly and without doubt exemplified in the Command.
He added that one of the foremost mandates of the Command is to deliberately entrench modern policing standards, particularly, respect for the rule of law and the fundamental rights of all citizens.
