IGP submits framework for state police to Senate committee

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Rilwan Disu, has submitted a model for the constitution of State Police to the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, arsenic portion of efforts to decentralise policing successful the country.

The constabulary main presented the model to Senator Barau, who chairs the Senate Committee connected the Review of the 1999 Constitution, astatine the senator’s bureau successful the National Assembly, Abuja, connected Thursday.

A connection by the Special Adviser to the Deputy President of the Senate connected Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, said the 75-page model was submitted connected behalf of the IGP by Professor Olu Ogunsakin, president of the committee acceptable up by the Nigeria Police Force to analyse the modalities for establishing State Police successful Nigeria.

Titled “A Comprehensive Framework for the Establishment, Governance and Coordination of Federal and State Police,” the papers outlines the projected modus operandi of the authorities police.

The IGP said, “The study covers the consider...