• Set to withdraw commissioners, others’ police aides
In a bid to end the perceived corruption in the Nigeria Police Force and engender a paradigm shift in the system, the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, has reinstated the ban on police roadblocks across the country. Arase, who was appointed the 18th indigenous IGP last week by President Goodluck Jonathan, announced the ban yesterday in Abuja, at his maiden meeting with Commissioners of Police (CPs) and Assistant Inspectors- General of Police (AIGs). This is as the police chief further conveyed his decision to reconstitute and strengthen the Judges Protection Unit, to enable Magistrates, Judges and Justices adjudicate on criminal cases before them, without fear or favour. Arase noted: “While visible policing will be enhanced, I wish to, in clear terms, re-emphasise that police roadblocks remain banned. They are public nuisances, points of corruption, and sources of police-citizens’ frictions.”To this end, he warned that: “The Commissioners of Police, Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in whose jurisdictions illegal roadblocks are detected, will be personally or vicariously held liable, and swift disciplinary actions will be initiated against such officers. “Any police officer caught either through whistle-blowing framework or direct operations of the enforcement units of the Force, will be appropriately dealt with, in line with established disciplinary procedure of the Force, and may additionally be prosecuted in the swiftest fashion.”
Apart from the ban on police check points, Arase stated that the IGP Monitoring Unit, X-Squad and Force Provost Marshal, have all been motivated and directed to “immediately embark on massive anti-corruption enforcement operations.” According to the IGP, “The loss of public respect and confidence in the police as well as our inability to effectively tackle crimes in the most ethical and professional manner, have been widely attributed to the challenge of corruption within the policing system. “This administration intends to pursue a twoway approach in addressing the menace of corruption in the Police.
The first is to develop frameworks and interventions that will address root causes of corruption. “In this regard, official factory like logistics and welfare challenges that create grounds for corrupt tendencies by police officers, will be vigorously addressed. “The second approach is to pursue a very robust anti- corruption enforcement strategy, that will leave no serving police officer and citizens under any illusion about its integrity and firm commitment to national ethical rebirth and development,” he stated.
Apart from his anticorruption initiative, the Police boss listed other critical policing areas to be given deserved attention in the new strategic plan, to include: Human Rights Driven Policing, Intelligence-led Investigation/ Operations and Community Partnership, Case Diversion, Fast Track Trials and Restorative Justice, engagement of cuttingedge technology and best practices to all levels of police functions in Nigeria, and Human Capacity Development. On the protection of the judicial officers, the Acting IGP said: “In order to ensure that the maximum security needed to give our Magistrates, Judges and Justices, the confidence to dispense criminal justice is attained, the Judges Protection Unit will be immediately reconstituted and specially equipped. “Any nation desirous of justice, owes its Magistrates, Judges and Justices the sacred obligation of protection.”
Confronted with the reality that more personnel will be needed to achieve this, Arase said: “Police security details attached to civil commissioners and other unauthorised individuals across the country, will be reduced or withdrawn, as the case may be. “The manpower drawn from this exercise, will be committed to rejuvenation of the Judges Protection Unit,” he said. Arase indicated that there will be massive training of Intelligence and Crime Analysts, “as a conscious strategy of broadening the Intelligence/ Crime Analysis base of the Force.” He has also directed that the Nigeria Police Intelligence School in Enugu, which has been closed for over a year, be re-opened on May 4, for commencement of training activities in areas of intelligence, analysis and strategic intelligence management.
- New Telegraph
In a bid to end the perceived corruption in the Nigeria Police Force and engender a paradigm shift in the system, the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, has reinstated the ban on police roadblocks across the country. Arase, who was appointed the 18th indigenous IGP last week by President Goodluck Jonathan, announced the ban yesterday in Abuja, at his maiden meeting with Commissioners of Police (CPs) and Assistant Inspectors- General of Police (AIGs). This is as the police chief further conveyed his decision to reconstitute and strengthen the Judges Protection Unit, to enable Magistrates, Judges and Justices adjudicate on criminal cases before them, without fear or favour. Arase noted: “While visible policing will be enhanced, I wish to, in clear terms, re-emphasise that police roadblocks remain banned. They are public nuisances, points of corruption, and sources of police-citizens’ frictions.”To this end, he warned that: “The Commissioners of Police, Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in whose jurisdictions illegal roadblocks are detected, will be personally or vicariously held liable, and swift disciplinary actions will be initiated against such officers. “Any police officer caught either through whistle-blowing framework or direct operations of the enforcement units of the Force, will be appropriately dealt with, in line with established disciplinary procedure of the Force, and may additionally be prosecuted in the swiftest fashion.”
Apart from the ban on police check points, Arase stated that the IGP Monitoring Unit, X-Squad and Force Provost Marshal, have all been motivated and directed to “immediately embark on massive anti-corruption enforcement operations.” According to the IGP, “The loss of public respect and confidence in the police as well as our inability to effectively tackle crimes in the most ethical and professional manner, have been widely attributed to the challenge of corruption within the policing system. “This administration intends to pursue a twoway approach in addressing the menace of corruption in the Police.
The first is to develop frameworks and interventions that will address root causes of corruption. “In this regard, official factory like logistics and welfare challenges that create grounds for corrupt tendencies by police officers, will be vigorously addressed. “The second approach is to pursue a very robust anti- corruption enforcement strategy, that will leave no serving police officer and citizens under any illusion about its integrity and firm commitment to national ethical rebirth and development,” he stated.
Apart from his anticorruption initiative, the Police boss listed other critical policing areas to be given deserved attention in the new strategic plan, to include: Human Rights Driven Policing, Intelligence-led Investigation/ Operations and Community Partnership, Case Diversion, Fast Track Trials and Restorative Justice, engagement of cuttingedge technology and best practices to all levels of police functions in Nigeria, and Human Capacity Development. On the protection of the judicial officers, the Acting IGP said: “In order to ensure that the maximum security needed to give our Magistrates, Judges and Justices, the confidence to dispense criminal justice is attained, the Judges Protection Unit will be immediately reconstituted and specially equipped. “Any nation desirous of justice, owes its Magistrates, Judges and Justices the sacred obligation of protection.”
Confronted with the reality that more personnel will be needed to achieve this, Arase said: “Police security details attached to civil commissioners and other unauthorised individuals across the country, will be reduced or withdrawn, as the case may be. “The manpower drawn from this exercise, will be committed to rejuvenation of the Judges Protection Unit,” he said. Arase indicated that there will be massive training of Intelligence and Crime Analysts, “as a conscious strategy of broadening the Intelligence/ Crime Analysis base of the Force.” He has also directed that the Nigeria Police Intelligence School in Enugu, which has been closed for over a year, be re-opened on May 4, for commencement of training activities in areas of intelligence, analysis and strategic intelligence management.
- New Telegraph
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