By Fatima Zahra Muhammad
ASHENEWS reports that the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 7 Abuja, AIG Adebowale Williams has said that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) was repositioning key police formations in a bid to address insecurity in some parts of the country.
Williams stated this when he paid a one-day working visit to the Niger State Police command.
The AIG, who supervises FCT/ Niger Commands said that the move would ensure proactive policing in tackling kidnapping, insurgency, and other criminalities in the nation.
He noted that the NPF was also initiating measures that would improve response time, intelligence, and prompt visibility in policing in the country.
According to him, the police as the leading internal security agency in the country has adopted measures that would curb inter-state crime.
He disclosed plans by the NPF to train 40,000 Police Mobile Force (PMF) personnel on prompt response to violent crime.
He equally lauded the Niger State Police Command for its efforts at tackling insecurity in the state.
He assured that the NPF would continue to strengthen the welfare of its personnel.
Earlier, the Niger State Commissioner of Police, CP Ogundele Ayodeji, while briefing the AIG said that the state police command has made appreciable progress in fighting crime in the state.
On youth restiveness bedeviling the state, Ayodeji said “The Command had embarked on massive raids of black spots in conjunction with other security agencies in the state, through which many thugs disturbing the peace in the metropolis were arrested and prosecuted, while the joint patrol is sustained in the metropolis. This has ensured relative peace in the metropolis,”
This online platform reports that the units which will be undergoing reforms according to the AIG include the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU), NPF National Command and Control Centre (NCCC), Nigeria Police Crime & Incidence Database Centre (NPCIDC), Interpol as well as Community Policing Unit.
