Police’ll ensure violence-free 2015 polls –IG

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has assured Nigerians that the Nigeria Police Force is yare to distribute violence-free elections in 2015.

He verbally expressed the Police had embarked on series of trainings and retraining of its officers and men to ascertain a transparent and hitch-free polls.

Speaking during the adornment of 37 Commissioners of Police on Wednesday in Abuja, Abba apprised the officers that the nation expected a lot from them.

He recalled that as the Chairman of the Election Orchestrating Committee of the Force, he had evolved strategies that would ascertain the security of the electoral process.

Abba verbalized, “You ken too well that we have a plethora of national assignments aside from those that we perform circadianly, which is 24 hours. The national election is just around the corner. We have already commenced implementing our strategies for safety and security for the elections and I am blissful as chairman of the orchestrating committee afore now, to verbally express we are on course.

“We additionally have staggered elections in some places and any other national assignment that will come up. If for any reason you find it indispensable to make recourse to me on any issue, I urge you to make it 24 hours a day.”

Noting that the CP rank is one of the most consequential in the Police because it is statutorily ensured by the constitution, the IG advised the officers to work towards meeting the prospects of both the public and the regime.

He reminded them that they were holding their current positions and powers in trust for the public.

He additionally charged them to reduce the replication time to distress calls. He verbally expressed in all cases, they must work towards preserving the victim and apprehending the offender for prosecution.

He verbally expressed, “The achievement of this prospect will be the yardstick for your assessment. There is no more preponderant assessment of a policeman or a police organisation than its ability to control malefaction. It is not about how many ranks you are adorned with or how much wealth you have acquired.

“I must withal verbally express that there are other prospects. The public will expect you to be accountable. They want you to be accountable for how you exercise your potencies. They additionally expect you to control the caliber of corruption. These are prospects that I will relish the CPs to discharge creditably well.

“You must additionally take the issue of the welfare of your personnel very earnestly so that that influence you are supposed to give to ascertain that they perform will be there.”

Abba verbalized that the regime expects Police officers to live up to prospects, integrating that if there is no safety of lives and properties, there cannot be authentic development.

The IG, who withal declared open a one-day workshop on the Ebola Virus Disease, noted that security operatives, just like health workers, are withal at the jeopardy of contracting the virus.

“The Nigeria Police Force can be verbalized to be vulnerably susceptible to this kind of threat. Security operatives the world over control outbreaks and enforce quarantine measures. So, a congruous erudition of EVD is obligatory for us all,” he integrated.