The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, accompanied by senior police officers, including the Deputy Inspectors-General of Police in charge of the Force Intelligence Department and the Department of Logistics and Supply, Benjamin Nebeolisa Okolo and Adebola Ayinde Hamzat and the Commissioner of Police in charge of Kwara State, Ojo Adekimi, commissioned the newly completed Nigeria Police Intelligence School, Share, Kwara State, today.
This signifies the birth of a bold new chapter in the evolution of the Nigeria Police Force.
During the commissioning, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, represented by the Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, Abubakar Abdullahi Bata, commended the IGP for this significant establishment in the State, which evidences the IGP’s passion to leverage intelligence gathering, analysis, and dissemination capabilities in the Nigeria Police to decimate crimes and criminality.
The Intelligence School will serve as a hub to train officers in modern intelligence techniques, equipping them with the prerequisite skills and knowledge necessary to effectively combat all forms of crime, terrorism, and other security threats. The School, which will be open to members of other security and intelligence agencies, will offer training programs in areas such as intelligence analysis, cybercrime investigation, forensic science, and counter-terrorism strategies as part of its curriculum. The IGP, while appreciating the host community for the school, promised that it would operate at maximum functionality with immediate effect.
Egbetokun also reiterated the need for a proactive, intelligence-led, and community-oriented approach to policing, further highlighting the importance of continuous training, capacity building, and adoption of modern technologies to effectively address the evolving security challenges facing the nation, stressing the significance of collaboration between the police, academic institutions, and communities in fostering a safe and secure environment for all citizens.
The IGP opined thus at the Maiden CPSS Distinguished Alumni Public Lecture of the Al-Hikmah University Centre for Peace and Security Studies (CPSS), Kwara State, today, where he served as its first ever Guest Lecturer in the series, and delivered a lecture paper titled “Effective Policing of Nigeria for Sustainable Peace and Development: Role of Stakeholders”.
As part of his lecture, the IGP emphasized that security transcends the use of kinetic and non-kinetic approaches, and involves environmental, economic, human, and food security, amongst others.
The IGP assures that the Nigeria Police Force will continually pursue strategies aimed at enhancing its intelligence capabilities and proactive community engagements to bridge the schism between the Police and members of the public.
He also urges members of the public, as strategic stakeholders in security, to employ the use of CCTVs and other permissible technological devices to assist the police in its task of crime prevention and achieve a more secure society.
