By Patrick Asemota
IGP Adamu
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu has promised to evolve a brand new police force to meet the country’s crime fighting demands.
Addressing senior police officers at the Eko Hotels and Suites in Lagos on Monday, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu said, the focus of the retreat and conference, which is two-fold in nature, is to rebrand the Nigerian Police that guarantees the security and safety of Nigerians in accordance with the Constitutional provision that ‘the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government’
Commissioners of Police, Assistant Inspectors General of Police, and Deputy Inspectors General of Police are the category of senior officers attending the 3-Day retreat and conference.
Speaking on the nature of the confab, Adamu said; “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. This is with a view to identifying human capacity requirements for addressing current and emerging threats to our internal security and evolving pathways towards addressing such.
“Secondly, this programme is expected to avail participating Police Officers of the opportunity to draw on the expertise of seasoned facilitators and the rich professional knowledge of the array of police officers here gathered. We shall also leverage on the network to be established towards enhancing peer-review towards engendering a broader understanding of our mandate and enhance our operational capacity.”
Senior Police Officers attending the Confab
While thanking President Buhari for honouring the invitation for the retreat, and host governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, IGP Adamu said the “security threats being faced in our dear nation require urgent and well-thought out solutions,” and charged his men and women to “rededicate ourselves to our statutory duties in order to provide security that will not only place us above the criminal elements, but guarantee that we deliver our services in the most professional, civil, and lawful manner.”
He said the Nigerian Police Force “is determined to evolve a new Police Force for the nation,” that would explore all available strategies in guaranteeing their security and safety. He reassured the government and Nigerians that the constant engagement of strategic managers and consistent training and retraining of personnel of the Force across all ranks, would produce a Police Force that is knowledge-driven, rule of law-guided, community-oriented, technology-compliant, and intelligence-led.
