FCT: Police launch Violent Crime Response Unit to address security threats

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command on Monday, launched the Violent Crime Response Unit, VCRU, astatine the Old SARS Office Abuja, arsenic portion of efforts aimed to fortify the combat against convulsive crimes crossed the territory.

The move, according to the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Muhammed Sanusi, is aimed astatine addressing information threats posed by equipped robbery, kidnapping, convulsive attacks and different activities of transgression elements successful the nation’s capital.

The CP noted that the portion was strategically structured into 5 operational sectors crossed the territory to guarantee broader “coverage, improved quality gathering, faster effect capability, and much effectual deployment of resources”.

The FCT constabulary brag emphasized that officers selected into the portion were “carefully screened and rigorously trained”, stressing that professionalism, discipline, accountability, and respect for quality rights indispensable stay the guiding principles of their operations.

He warned that misconduct, maltreatment of authority, harassment, extortion, and different forms of unprofessional behaviour would not beryllium tolerated nether immoderate circumstance.

The lawsuit was attended by accepted rulers, representatives of different information agencies including the Commander, Guards Brigade, Brigadier General A.O. Onasanya....