IGP Warns Officers On Need For Intelligence-Led Policing
The Inspector General of Police has urged officers and men of
the Nigeria Police to engage more in intelligence driven investigation
in their daily interaction with the public.
Mr Solomon Arase said this in Lagos at the briefing of officers within the south west zone
The police chief charged Commissioners and Heads of Divisions in the Zone to move away from the old style of policing to intelligence based investigation.
“Once a matter is civil it is civil, when it is commercial it is commercial. The degree of the intervention of the police officer should be restricted strictly to the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
“If you cannot intervene and resolve the parties, then you should advise them to go to court. Situations where we arrest people and we allow the other parties to go and start demolishing their houses and taking over their properties will not be tolerated”, adding that “you must not criminalise commercial transaction”, he said.
He further noted that “before you (police officers) arrest anyone in your various cells, especially the State CIDs, Divisional Crime Units and SARS, you must be able to assemble sufficient evidence, you must be able to convince yourself that as you are going to invite the parties, you have sufficient evidence to interrogate them with.
“Situations where you now arrest somebody and then begin to look for evidence, means you are in breach of the constitutional rights of the citizen”, he maintained.
Mr Arase also promised that his administration will work toward giving robust welfare for them.
With the re- opening of the Police Detective College, Enugu which the police boss said has been shut over a year ago, it is expected that this new administration will invest in intelligence based training for officers so as to prepare them for the future.
Mr Solomon Arase said this in Lagos at the briefing of officers within the south west zone
The police chief charged Commissioners and Heads of Divisions in the Zone to move away from the old style of policing to intelligence based investigation.
“Once a matter is civil it is civil, when it is commercial it is commercial. The degree of the intervention of the police officer should be restricted strictly to the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
“If you cannot intervene and resolve the parties, then you should advise them to go to court. Situations where we arrest people and we allow the other parties to go and start demolishing their houses and taking over their properties will not be tolerated”, adding that “you must not criminalise commercial transaction”, he said.
He further noted that “before you (police officers) arrest anyone in your various cells, especially the State CIDs, Divisional Crime Units and SARS, you must be able to assemble sufficient evidence, you must be able to convince yourself that as you are going to invite the parties, you have sufficient evidence to interrogate them with.
“Situations where you now arrest somebody and then begin to look for evidence, means you are in breach of the constitutional rights of the citizen”, he maintained.
Mr Arase also promised that his administration will work toward giving robust welfare for them.
With the re- opening of the Police Detective College, Enugu which the police boss said has been shut over a year ago, it is expected that this new administration will invest in intelligence based training for officers so as to prepare them for the future.
wenty
days to the inauguration of the new government of All Progressives
Congress, APC, there is still no sign that the party has reached a
compromise on which geopolitical zone of the country that will produce
the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Instead, the matter has so rattled the party that two different committees have emerged to broker a ruse amongst zones and forces contending for the position.
It has also thrown up at least two zones and two candidates who are now on a hot race for the position.
They are north east and the south west zones. While Hon. Yakubu
Dogara from Bauchi State jostles from the north east, the south west
through the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is
insisting on the candidacy of the outgoing minority leader of the House,
Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila from Lagos State.
It will be recalled that the party had on May 22 at the Party’s leadership meeting in Abuja appointed a two man committee comprising the president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Oyegun to resolve the issue when it became obvious that the two zones were at each other’s throat for the office.
But the Buhari/Oyegun committee has not met and if it had, the outcome of the meeting is yet to be made public. But an authentic party source who also shares an affinity with the House of Representatives confided in Saturday Vanguard yesterday that the committee’s willingness to meet for the purpose was poor.
According to him, the president-elect may have since taken a position on the matter which is that the incoming members of the National Assembly should be given the liberty to
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Instead, the matter has so rattled the party that two different committees have emerged to broker a ruse amongst zones and forces contending for the position.
It has also thrown up at least two zones and two candidates who are now on a hot race for the position.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
It will be recalled that the party had on May 22 at the Party’s leadership meeting in Abuja appointed a two man committee comprising the president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Oyegun to resolve the issue when it became obvious that the two zones were at each other’s throat for the office.
But the Buhari/Oyegun committee has not met and if it had, the outcome of the meeting is yet to be made public. But an authentic party source who also shares an affinity with the House of Representatives confided in Saturday Vanguard yesterday that the committee’s willingness to meet for the purpose was poor.
According to him, the president-elect may have since taken a position on the matter which is that the incoming members of the National Assembly should be given the liberty to
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gunman opened fire on Friday outside a school in northeast Nigeria’s
city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly
targeted by Boko Haram, a poli - See more at:
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gunman opened fire on Friday outside a school in northeast Nigeria’s
city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly
targeted by Boko Haram, a police officer and witnesses said.
“We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack,” said the officer, who requested anonymity.
Many students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up when he ran out of ammunition, but the blast caused no other casualties.
Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before entering the campus.
The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened shortly past 8:00 am (0700 GMT), witnesses said.
“We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realised we were under attack which made us to rush out of the class,” student Tijjani Musa said.
According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began shooting.
“He kept firing sporadic shots,” but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar.
“When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd,” Umar told AFP.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Potiskum has frequently been targeted by Boko Haram, which is responsible for leaving more than 15,000 people dead and another 1.5 million homeless since 2009.
The group’s name means “Western education is forbidden” and its leaders have previously vowed to strike institutions that teach a secular curriculum.
Last November, at least 58 people were killed and another 117 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a student assembly ground inside the Government Comprehensive Secondary School which is next to CABS.
That attack was blamed on Boko Haram.
One of the group’s most gruesome student massacres also occurred in Yobe in September of 2013, when dozens of students were killed in their sleep at the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi.
Nigeria’s military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
But experts say the insurgents remain capable of hit-and-run strikes, and may increasingly target soft civilian targets, despite being weakened by the military offensive.
Outrage in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north over the government’s failure to protect civilians contributed in part to President Goodluck’s defeat in March’s election, analysts said.
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner, won near total majorities in the region and has vowed to more effectively combat the Islamist uprising.
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“We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack,” said the officer, who requested anonymity.
Many students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up when he ran out of ammunition, but the blast caused no other casualties.
Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before entering the campus.
The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened shortly past 8:00 am (0700 GMT), witnesses said.
“We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realised we were under attack which made us to rush out of the class,” student Tijjani Musa said.
According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began shooting.
“He kept firing sporadic shots,” but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar.
“When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd,” Umar told AFP.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Potiskum has frequently been targeted by Boko Haram, which is responsible for leaving more than 15,000 people dead and another 1.5 million homeless since 2009.
The group’s name means “Western education is forbidden” and its leaders have previously vowed to strike institutions that teach a secular curriculum.
Last November, at least 58 people were killed and another 117 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a student assembly ground inside the Government Comprehensive Secondary School which is next to CABS.
That attack was blamed on Boko Haram.
One of the group’s most gruesome student massacres also occurred in Yobe in September of 2013, when dozens of students were killed in their sleep at the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi.
Nigeria’s military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
But experts say the insurgents remain capable of hit-and-run strikes, and may increasingly target soft civilian targets, despite being weakened by the military offensive.
Outrage in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north over the government’s failure to protect civilians contributed in part to President Goodluck’s defeat in March’s election, analysts said.
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner, won near total majorities in the region and has vowed to more effectively combat the Islamist uprising.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/suicide-bomber-opens-fire-on-students-kills-self/#sthash.Zc92YgSr.dpuf
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gunman opened fire on Friday outside a school in northeast Nigeria’s
city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly
targeted by Boko Haram, a police officer and witnesses said.
“We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack,” said the officer, who requested anonymity.
Many students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up when he ran out of ammunition, but the blast caused no other casualties.
Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before entering the campus.
The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened shortly past 8:00 am (0700 GMT), witnesses said.
“We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realised we were under attack which made us to rush out of the class,” student Tijjani Musa said.
According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began shooting.
“He kept firing sporadic shots,” but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar.
“When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd,” Umar told AFP.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Potiskum has frequently been targeted by Boko Haram, which is responsible for leaving more than 15,000 people dead and another 1.5 million homeless since 2009.
The group’s name means “Western education is forbidden” and its leaders have previously vowed to strike institutions that teach a secular curriculum.
Last November, at least 58 people were killed and another 117 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a student assembly ground inside the Government Comprehensive Secondary School which is next to CABS.
That attack was blamed on Boko Haram.
One of the group’s most gruesome student massacres also occurred in Yobe in September of 2013, when dozens of students were killed in their sleep at the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi.
Nigeria’s military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
But experts say the insurgents remain capable of hit-and-run strikes, and may increasingly target soft civilian targets, despite being weakened by the military offensive.
Outrage in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north over the government’s failure to protect civilians contributed in part to President Goodluck’s defeat in March’s election, analysts said.
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner, won near total majorities in the region and has vowed to more effectively combat the Islamist uprising.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/suicide-bomber-opens-fire-on-students-kills-self/#sthash.Zc92YgSr.dpuf
“We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack,” said the officer, who requested anonymity.
Many students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up when he ran out of ammunition, but the blast caused no other casualties.
Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before entering the campus.
The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened shortly past 8:00 am (0700 GMT), witnesses said.
“We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realised we were under attack which made us to rush out of the class,” student Tijjani Musa said.
According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began shooting.
“He kept firing sporadic shots,” but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar.
“When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd,” Umar told AFP.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Potiskum has frequently been targeted by Boko Haram, which is responsible for leaving more than 15,000 people dead and another 1.5 million homeless since 2009.
The group’s name means “Western education is forbidden” and its leaders have previously vowed to strike institutions that teach a secular curriculum.
Last November, at least 58 people were killed and another 117 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a student assembly ground inside the Government Comprehensive Secondary School which is next to CABS.
That attack was blamed on Boko Haram.
One of the group’s most gruesome student massacres also occurred in Yobe in September of 2013, when dozens of students were killed in their sleep at the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi.
Nigeria’s military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
But experts say the insurgents remain capable of hit-and-run strikes, and may increasingly target soft civilian targets, despite being weakened by the military offensive.
Outrage in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north over the government’s failure to protect civilians contributed in part to President Goodluck’s defeat in March’s election, analysts said.
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner, won near total majorities in the region and has vowed to more effectively combat the Islamist uprising.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/suicide-bomber-opens-fire-on-students-kills-self/#sthash.Zc92YgSr.dpuf
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