Top officers of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday held an emergency meeting to discuss strategies to combat the incessant terror attacks, herdsmen and farmers clashes as well as other forms of crimes and criminality including abductions trans-border banditry, proliferation of arms and ammunition, taking place in the country.
The meeting was convened by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar, at the Force Headquarters Abuja to appraise the overall security situation and the way forward.
While urging the Zonal AIGs and the Command to evolve new intelligence gathering and crime-fighting techniques and methodologies tailored to suit their respective local challenges, the IGP charged the senior officers to improve on their surveillance network and visibility across the country.
He also urged the officers commence early preparations for the 2015 general elections by conducting adequate threat analysis and intensifying capacity building for electoral policing best practices.
Abubakar reminded the Police top brass of the immense trust and confidence placed in them by the public, charging them to bring their professionalism, skills and experience to bear in the discharge of the statutory mandate of solving crimes, maintaining law and order, protecting lives and property and ridding the country of terror, amongst other things.
The IGP reiterated that the country is passing through one of its most trying moments as a nation and therefore demands utmost loyalty and commitment to duty from its officers.
He assured Nigerians of the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies to their well being, noting that the security agencies would continually do their best possible towards eliminating all threats to internal security of the nation.
