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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

ACTING IG



Ag IG seeks peoples' support for more effective police services.

The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has solicited the cooperation of the public to enable the police in the country to perform more effectively.

Abubakar, who addressed newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday shortly after a closed door meeting with senior police officers, pledged to evolve a new police that would serve and respect the rights of Nigerians.

``I call on all Nigerians to support the police, to support this administration with a view to changing the police for better service.

``We intend to give this country a police service that would respect and regard the citizens as our masters and we their servants.’’

He said with the support of the people and cooperation from sister security agencies, the country would be more secured.

The IG, who promised to make the police better than he met it, called for the resuscitation of the quarterly meeting of stakeholders on the criminal justice system at the Federal and State levels, to review strategies for improved relations.

``Policing a country is an uphill task which can only be successfully executed when everyone plays his role actively in the crusade against crime.

``I need the assistance and collaboration of all officers and men of the police and sister security agencies, and the understanding of all Nigerians in this difficult and challenging period.’’

Abubakar, said the Police Intelligence Unit has become ``comatose, rudderless and not in touch with modern day intelligence'', pledging to upgrade it to a full department for optimal performance.

In addition, the IG said he would establish an intelligence school and ensure sustained training of undercover agents.

He assured Nigerians that steps would be taken to redeem the image of the police, ensure sanity and wipe out corruption, adding that ``corollary lawlessness by officers would no longer be tolerated.

``This would be done by not only reinvigorating the corruption fighting machinery on ground, but setting up new one to check the excess of all officers and men in the Nigeria police.

``There is no place in the Nigeria Police Force for any dishonest and undisciplined policeman anymore, and this administration will get rid of all misfits and undesirable members from the force.

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