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The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the Intelligence Department of the Force at the Zonal and State Commands level Nationwide.Ā
The Force Spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed in a statement that the move was part of efforts to boost the Police’s intelligence department.
The statement added that the IGP aims to make the Intelligence Department more effective at all levels of the Force to tackle the country’s crime rate, aligning with his vision.Ā
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āIt will be recalled that the IGP on assumption of duty reactivated the Presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau to the status of a Department with the appointment of DIG Habu Sanni, as the DIG in charge of the new Department of Force Intelligence,ā the statement added.Ā
The IGP tasked the newly appointed Senior Officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.Ā
He further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties toward strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force
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