Police To Deploy 300 Vehicles For Patrol

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, has said  that he would soon deploy no fewer than 300 vehicles to patrol major highways in the country.

“The vehicles will replace the recently dismantled road blocks and help to boost the effective patrolling of our highways,”  he said.

The acting police chief disclosed this while visiting Gov. Babatunde Fashola in Ikeja.

Abubakar said unfortunately road blocks were being used for purposes different from their original intention.

He said that the road blocks, as used in the country, had been turned into an aberration which affected effective policing.

The acting IGP said that road blocks were being used to extort money from motorists over the years, rather than to fight crime.

Abubakar also said the force had concluded arrangements for the training of no fewer than 50,000 of its personnel.

According to him, 16,000 of the 50,000 will get intelligence-based police training, while another 10,000 would go for detective course training.

“And so, we decided that those road blocks should go.“

He added that all the four premier police colleges in Enugu, Ikeja, Maiduguri and Kaduna would soon be rehabilitated and repositioned to deliver quality training to men of the force.

Abubakar said that the police were currently in a major transformational process, promising that the force would soon metamorphose into a people-friendly, effective-crime fighting establishment.

In his remarks, Fashola noted that the Nigerian Police Force worked in a “difficult environment“.