Kwara police command inaugurates violent crime response unit

Kwara State Police Command, on Friday, officially inaugurated the Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU).

‎The lawsuit held astatine the constabulary officers’ messiness successful Ilorin marked the expansive finale of the two-day capacity-building programme organized for officers of the recently established Unit, successful enactment with the operational mandate of the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to fortify intelligence-led effect to convulsive crimes and deepen community-oriented policing.

‎The State Police Commissioner, Ojo Adekimi, formally constituted members of the Civilian Oversight Board and officially inaugurated the VCRU operational team, with its basal astatine A Division, Ilorin.

‎In his speech, the Commissioner stated that the portion is mandated to tackle equipped robbery, kidnapping, and different convulsive crimes done intelligence-driven operations, portion ensuring extortion of lives and property, strict compliance with the instrumentality and quality rights standards, assemblage trust, and nationalist accountability successful each its operations.

‎The programme featured information consciousness lectures including “Public Safety and Securi...