IGP REDEPLOYS 54 ACPs TO HEAD POLICE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENTS
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The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police to head the Force Intelligence Departments at zonal and state command levels nationwide.
This development follows a recent spike in banditry and kidnapping nationwide, particularly in Abuja and Kaduna State.
According to statistics gathered from media reports and a reputable indigenous intelligence organization, Beacon Consulting, over 69 people were killed and 152 kidnapped during 194 incidents carried out by bandits and other criminals in the Federal Capital Territory in 2022.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, stated that this was a step toward the Nigeria Police Force’s intelligence department being expanded.
He stated that the posting was premised on the zeal of the IG to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the intelligence department at every level of the force as a panacea to addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement.
Adejobi said, “It will be recalled that the IGP, on assumption of duty, reactivated the presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau to the status of a department with the appointment of DIG Habu Sanni, as the DIG in charge of the new Department of Force Intelligence.
“The IG has, however, tasked the newly appointed senior officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.
“He has further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force. The posting is with immediate effect.”
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