Police prepare officers for state police as IGP backs reform process 

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has declared its readiness to enactment the implementation of authorities constabulary if approved, assuring that professionalism, accountability and operational excellence volition stay cardinal to the caller policing framework.

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, gave the assurance portion declaring unfastened a one-day sensitisation store connected authorities constabulary organised by the Nigeria Institute of Police Studies (NIPS).

He said the store was aimed astatine equipping constabulary officers with the cognition and capableness to enactment constructively successful discussions connected authorities constabulary and to efficaciously accommodate to immoderate aboriginal policing reforms.

The IGP encouraged participants to maximise the accidental provided by the store and cascade the cognition gained to officers successful their respective commands and formations to guarantee a shared knowing of the projected betterment crossed the Force.

Earlier, the Director-General of the Nigeria Institute of Police Studies, Professor Olu Ogunshakin, praised the Inspector-General for establishing the Nigeria Police Force Steering Committee connected State Police.

He noted that a fig of the committee’s recommendations person been incorporated into the projected State Police Bill, describing the improvement arsenic a important milestone successful Nigeria’s policing betterment agenda.<...