Insecurity: IGP orders ACPs to take over intelligence departments nationwide

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun on Tuesday ordered the posting of Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the intelligence department of the force at both the zonal and state command level nationwide.

This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi’

According to the statement, the posting which with an immediate effect ” is premised on the zeal of the IGP to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the intelligence department at every level of the force as a panacea to addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement.”

The statement recalled that the IGP on the 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.

The statement added the polls boss tasked the newly appointed senior officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.

He further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the force.

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