Don’t panic if you hear gunshots – Yobe police alert residents 

The Yobe State Police Command has commenced a unrecorded firearms grooming workout arsenic portion of efforts to retrain its unit connected modular policing procedures and amended operational efficiency.
In a nationalist work announcement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Dungus Abdulkarim connected Tuesday, the Command said the workout is taking spot astatine the State Shooting Range connected Tuesday arsenic portion of an ongoing retraining programme.

According to the statement, the grooming focuses connected Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), with accent connected quality rights, nonrecreational policing, constabulary duties and harmless weapons handling.

The Command said residents whitethorn perceive intermittent gunshots astir 11:00 a.m. connected Tuesday but stressed that the sounds are from a planned unrecorded firearms simulation workout and not a information threat. It added that the workout is expected to past for 1 day.

The Commissioner of Police, Usman Jibrin Kanfani, said the grooming reflects the Command’s committedness to continuous capableness gathering for officers to heighten professionalism, operational ratio and effectual work delivery.

He appealed t...