The acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has lamented that criminality is taking place in virtually every part of the country, assuring, however, that scientific technology and crime data base would be deployed in combating robbery, insurgence, assassination, terrorism, kidnapping, cattle rustling and other violent social vices.
Speaking yesterday at a session held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, as part of the ongoing 56th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, the police boss disclosed that the special units of the Nigeria Police are being restructured and reorganised to ensure effective policing and stem the increasing wave of criminality across the country.
Represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, Hyacinth Dagala, he said the theme for the NBA conference, “Democracy and Economic Development,” was apt and relevant to “enhancing security in Nigeria,” adding that economic development anywhere in the world depended largely on peace and security.
“Security is the pillar upon which every meaningful national development will be achieved and sustained. This explains why the primary responsibility of any government is to combat all forms of crime and criminality and provide peaceful atmosphere and security for its citizens.
“The question then is how well has the Nigeria Police performed this onerous task of ensuring the internal security of Nigeria to sustain our growing democracy and economic development?
“Our current security challenges, for example, robbery, kidnapping, insurgency, militancy, murder and cattle rustling, placed the responsibility on us to do more and to search for new ways to confront this menace,” Idris said.
The IGP stated that other measures the police would adopt to fight crime would include the establishment of crime data base at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, with a back-up office in Lagos and the establishment of forensic laboratories in the six geopolitical zones in the country.
He disclosed that the crime data base would be harmonised with all relevant agencies to ensure an all-inclusive data base for the country, adding that when that had been achieved, policing would be made easy and security enhanced.
He listed the agencies to include the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Nigerian Immigration Services, NIS, Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, MTN, Glo, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, and the Department of State Services, DSS.
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