NEW strategies are being adopted to tackle rising insecurity and to take criminals out of circulation, the Police said yesterday.
The Police said that 545 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers have been arrested, 105 assorted weapons and a large cache of ammunition recovered between January and now.
They assured Nigerians that the new efforts will restore sanity.
Among the strategies being adopted, The Nation gathered, was a stronger partnership with telecommunication operators for easy tracking of criminal gangs and their sponsors.
Already, reforms have commenced in operations, intelligence, investigation, training, science and technology and innovation (STI), and monitoring and evaluation within the service, our Correspondent learnt.
It was gathered that a total of 261 suspected kidnappers, 535 armed robbers, 326 murder suspects, have been arrested and 361 firearms, including a large cache of arms, recovered since Mohammed Adamu assumed duty as acting Inspector-General (IG) with some of them already charged to court.
A statement yesterday by police spokesman Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner (DCP) said the adopted strategies would be purposeful and intelligence-driven, targeted at identifying, locating and dismantling kidnapping gangs across the nation and bringing the perpetrators, their collaborators to justice.
The statement reads: “The operation will involve the deployment of undercover operatives, decoy operations and high-level tactical missions with active participation of operatives drawn from the conventional police units, the Force Intelligence Unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS), the Special Anti-kidnapping Squads and the Police Tactical Units comprising the Police Mobile Force (PMF), the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and the Special Forces.
“The IGP, while commending the public for their understanding and support so far, reassures the nation that the end to violent crimes and other sundry criminal activities is in sight.
“He promised that the Force under his leadership will continue to work with other relevant stakeholders in the task of making Nigeria safer and better.”
Mba also disclosed that operatives deployed in Operation PUFF ADDER on May 5, rescued 27 kidnapped victims, including five Chinese nationals, who were whisked away at Bobi, Niger State on April 19 in an operation that left two of the criminals dead.
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