IGP Launches Training Exercise To Combat Complex Security Challenges

Worried by the incessant information challenges successful the country, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has trained its elder officers connected enforcement capableness gathering connected tackling analyzable information issues.

The training, which held connected Monday with the theme, ‘Managing fast-paced information challenges successful a protracted struggle environment’, was organised by the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP).

Speaking astatine the event, the inspector-general of police, IGP Kayode Egbetukun, said: “The taxable of this store – ‘Managing fast-paced information challenges successful a protracted struggle environment’ could not person been much apt. It speaks straight to the paradox of our times; conflicts that agelong crossed years, yet alteration signifier and strength daily. We look adversaries who are not lone persistent but adaptive. Criminal syndicates exploit exertion to grow their reach. Terrorist networks rebrand and reorganize to debar defeat. Local conflicts, erstwhile contained, present spill crossed borders, amplified by societal media and transnational alliances. This complexity demands much from america than courageousness alone. It demands foresight, creativity, and the agility to pb successful an situation of changeless flux.

“Our enactment indispensable harvester patience with speed, endurance with imagination, and strategy with unshakable resolve. That is wherefore this taxable has been cautiously chosen, to hole you, arsenic leaders, to anticipate, to adapt, and to enactment decisively successful an situation wherever hesitation is costly and velocity is survival. To this end, this one-day grooming store has been thoughtfully designed to enrich your enactment journey.

“What we question done this store is not conscionable idiosyncratic learning, but corporate transformation. The Nigeria Police Force indispensable turn into an instauration that is agile successful planning, bold successful execution, and agreed successful vision. Our occurrence volition not beryllium measured by the brilliance of 1 commandant oregon the courageousness of a fewer units, but by the spot of our corporate capableness to expect threats, to respond arsenic 1 body, and to present information that Nigerians tin spot and consciousness each day.

“This workshop, therefore, indispensable not extremity arsenic a bid of lectures and notes. It indispensable nutrient a displacement successful mindset, a recalibration of strategy, and a renewal of commitment. The lessons gained present indispensable echo successful our policies, bespeak successful our operations, and beryllium felt successful the regular lives of Nigerians who look to america for safety. Every penetration indispensable go an action, and each enactment indispensable fortify the concatenation of information that binds our federation together.”

Also speaking astatine the event, the president of SPSP, Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, said the enforcement capableness gathering programme was firmly aligned with the policing imaginativeness of IGP Egbetokun, which emphasises adherence to ineligible frameworks, proactive transgression prevention, technological innovation successful quality gathering, and robust inter-agency collaboration.

He further said, “This inaugural resonates with Nigeria’s National Security Strategy, the Police Reform Agenda, and planetary peacebuilding frameworks. It reflects our shared committedness to organization excellence, operational foresight, and principled governance. Through adept presentations, interactive sessions, lawsuit studies, and collaborative dialogue, we purpose to equip our elder officers not lone with tactical proficiency, but with the strategical penetration indispensable to pb with integrity and impact.”

Speaking further, Awuapila said the “SPSP remains steadfast successful its committedness to advancing bid and information done research, advocacy, capableness building, and diligent professionalism. By supporting the apical enactment of the NPF, we reaffirm our content that effectual policing is not solely astir enforcement-it is astir foresight, collaboration, and the courageousness to pb with purpose.

“It is scarcely a twelvemonth since we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the NPF. Within this period, you mandated SPSP to bid each cadres of the Force. Thus far, we person trained members of the intermediate cadre-specifically Chief Superintendents of Police-and today. we are privileged to prosecute with the apical echelon of the Nigeria Police Force. Furthermore, during this period, astir 1 100 officers person joined SPSP and person been formally inducted arsenic members. We profoundly admit this objection of spot and confidence. In designation of this, today’s grooming is offered arsenic a pro bono capacity-building programme.”