The Nigerian Police Force in collaboration with Wan Diyos Limited has concluded the training of over 6, 000 of its personnel on curbing electoral violence and related crimes ahead of the 2023 general elections.
CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, spokesman of the force disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
According to him, the training was carried out across the six geo-political zones of the country and were all headlined by academics and retired security men of great renown.
‘The Nigeria Police Force has concluded the training of Six Hundred and Twelve officers from across the 6 Geo-Political zones on effective strategies for combatting cultism, kidnapping and electoral violence in the country ahead of the 2023 general elections.
‘The training which held at 6 different venue in each of the 6 geo-political zones was organized by the Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with Wan Diyos Limited, a consulting firm, and had renowned members of the academia as well as a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Hashimu Ibrahim Argungu (Rtd.) as resource persons,’ Adejobi said.
Usman Alkali Baba, the inspector general of police while commenting on the development said: ‘the training is germane in light of the upcoming general elections to prepare officers to train their men on vibrant tactics to identify and decimate threats to election security management.’
He assured that training and retraining of police personnel for election security management and professionalism, in all areas of modern policing, will be a continuous project even after the 2023 general elections.
He furthermore charged the trainees to deploy the expertise gained from the workshop towards improved management of cultism, kidnapping and election related violence even as he directed them to ensure the knowledge cascades to other officers and men serving in their respective stations/units for a wholistic approach to election security management during the 2023 general elections.
