IGP: Our security threats require urgent, well-thought out solutions

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed A. Adamu, says the current the security threats facing the country, requires urgent and well-thought out solutions.

Fresh Angle International can report that the IGP made the assertion in his remarks, during the opening ceremony of the on-going 3-Day Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers at Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos State.

While noting that the presence of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Conference and Retreat, was: “A clear statement on the commitment to the re-engineering of the Nigeria Police and the prioritization of security by the Federal Government”, IGP Adamu, averred: “We intend to utilize this forum to undertake a holistic evaluation of the current internal security threats and crime dynamics in the country, identify factors engendering crimes, and project into the future”.

The Police Boss further explained: “There is a strong correlation between personnel capacity and organizational performance. This fact is even more evident in the Nigeria Police Force, given the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of crime that we, as the primary law enforcement agency grapples with routinely, the risks we are regularly exposed to, and our obligation to perform our duties within the dictates of the law.

The inter-mix of these requires the constant acquisition of professional knowledge by all police personnel, particularly, those at strategic management level.

This is with a view to acquiring the capacity to dissect threats, appreciate complex security and crime situations, and take decisions, at times in split seconds, towards neutralizing such threats or resolving identified crimes.

The idea of this Retreat is, therefore, in furtherance to our policing vision which emphasizes capacity building as a pathway to enhancing effective police service delivery in the country.

We firmly believe that with the constant engagement of strategic managers and consistent training and retraining of personnel of the Force across all ranks, the expectation of the Federal Government and indeed, the nation at large for a Police Force that is knowledge-driven, rule of law-guided, community-oriented, technology-compliant, and intelligence-led shall be achieved.

Through a professional forum of this nature, the personnel of the Nigeria Police shall be expected to acquire a high-level of professionalism and competence required to neutralize any threat to our national security and give meaning to the Constitutional provision that ‘the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government”.

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