Police Move To Check Use Of Escorts

In a bid to ensure equal protection for all Nigerians, Authorities of the Nigerian Police Force are intesifying efforts towards withdrawing police escorts attached to some members of the public who are not so entitled.

The Deputy Insepctor-General of Police  (DIG) in-charge of Research and Training, Muhamed Yesufu disclosed  this to newsmen Friday at the police officers mess in Port Harcourt.

Yesufu stated that the move by the police authority is to ensure that equal security treatment is given to all Nigerians irrespective of their status in the society.

According to the DIG, there will be no discrimination in the exercise adding that the police force.  management  is poised to ensuring that the system is sanitised.

“There will be no need for one or two policemen to be locked in the yard of anybody in the name of guarding the person.  We will only give police escorts to those who merits it constitutionally”, he stated.

Muhammed re-affirmed the readiness of the force in combating crime in the country adding that the Nigerian Police force is every prepared to deal with the numerous crime  that have emerged across the country in recent times.

The DIG in-charge of Training and Research assured Nigerians that the force is already on top of the various crimes in the country adding that the responsibility of achieving crime free society should not be left only in the hands of the security operatives in the country.

He urged members of the public to aid police and other security operative in the country particularly in the state with useful information that will help them fight crimes in the society assuring that such information will be protected.

On the upcoming Christmas season, DIG Muhamed Yesufu further assured that there will be massive police surveillance across the period adding that no police officer will be allowed to proceed on vacation during the Christmas season.