The Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase, has received kudos from the Police Assistance Committee (PAC) over his efforts to effectively deploy the Nigeria Police Force on internal security operations since coming on board.
The PAC, speaking through its Director General, Dr. John Martins Oni, noted that since assumption of office, the IGP has brought in his wealth of experience to properly mobilize officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force in applying themselves to the demands of internal security of the country.
The PAC boss, while addressing their members at a training workshop held in Lagos, called on the IGP to take up the challenge of the recent withdrawal of the military from internal security operations by the president and come up with strategies that will enable members of the PAC and similar bodies to pass useful and timely information to all police formations nationwide to address internal security issues.
Dr. Oni specifically appealed to the IGP to instruct all the police commands, area commands and DPOs to open information and intelligence gathering channels with all PAC state and zonal co-ordinators as well as chairmen, secretaries and PROs of PAC nationwide, particularly now that the military had been withdrawn from internal security operation.
The PAC boss implored President Muhammadu Buhari to apply critical thinking over his decision to withdraw the military from internal security operations, and should apply himself to the norms that guide such operations in other countries of the world.