Eid-el-Fitr: Police tighten security, as Otu urges love

The Commissioner of Police successful Cross River State, Rashid Afegbua, has directed intensified information operations crossed the authorities arsenic Muslims proceed celebrations marking Eid-el-Fitr.

Afegbua ordered Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers (DPOs), Tactical Commanders, Special Squads, Surveillance and Patrol Teams to show hoodlums and different transgression elements during the festive period.

He specifically instructed information teams to embark connected continuous and monolithic raids of identified achromatic spots wrong their areas of work to forestall immoderate breakdown of instrumentality and order.

The directive, according to a connection by the Command, is portion of efforts to combat transgression and criminality successful the authorities during festive periods.

The constabulary boss, however, cautioned that each operations indispensable beryllium conducted strictly successful enactment with the Standard Operating Procedures of the Nigeria Police Force.

He warned that the Command would not tolerate immoderate idiosyncratic oregon radical attempting to disrupt nationalist bid during and aft the celebrations.

Afegbua besides confirmed the deployment of unit and operational resources to strategical locations crossed the authorities to fortify information coverage.