Rivers, Bayelsa police begin joint border patrol, bush clearing

Security has been stepped up on the Rivers-Bayelsa bound arsenic the constabulary commands successful the 2 states launched associated patrols and bush-clearing operations to frustrate transgression activities.

The exercise, led by the Rivers and Bayelsa Commissioners of Police, CP Olugbenga Adepoju and CP Ajao Adewale, is aimed astatine denying criminals entree to secluded areas that could service arsenic hideouts.

The cognition is besides successful enactment with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, for constabulary commands to intensify information operations and place and wide locations suspected to beryllium utilized by transgression elements.

Speaking during the exercise, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olugbenga Adepoju, said the bush-clearing cognition was indispensable to “eliminate imaginable information threats on the boundary.”

Adepoju assured residents that the constabulary were taking proactive measures to guarantee a harmless Ember period, stressing that the 2 commands would proceed to enactment unneurotic to support lives and property.

His Bayelsa counterpart, Adewale, said the associated cognition would m...