IGP Meets Border Patrol Commanders, Tasks Them On Enhanced Security

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has charged Border Patrol Commanders crossed the state to discharge their duties with renewed determination.

He stressed that arsenic the nation’s archetypal enactment of defence against immoderate outer information threat, they transportation the tremendous work of safeguarding Nigeria’s sovereignty, preventing bloodshed, and defending the precise individuality of the nation.

According to a property connection signed by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, connected Friday, the IGP issued the complaint during a league with the Commanders astatine the Force Headquarters, Abuja, connected Friday.

In his address, the IGP underscored the immense and analyzable quality of Nigeria’s borders, and agelong maritime corridors that nexus Nigeria to the Gulf of Guinea, and commended the relentless efforts of the Force Border Patrol portion successful tackling the dynamic quality of crimes perpetrated astatine the nation’s borders.

The IGP emphasised that commanders indispensable anticipate, innovate, and outthink transgression elements, noting that “the Nigeria Police Force cannot tackle 21st-century crimes with 20th-century tools. That is wherefore we indispensable clasp exertion – surveillance systems, drones, biometric scanners, real-time information analysis.”

The IGP further stressed the value of intelligence-led policing, assemblage trust, and seamless collaboration with sister agencies arsenic the bedrock of effectual borderline security. While acknowledging the sacrifices of officers and commanders successful the enactment of duty, helium assured that nether his leadership, the payment of constabulary unit remains a priority.

IGP Egbetokun tasked the Commanders not to relent successful their strides to preempt and forestall transgression activities astatine Nigeria’s borders portion assuring the nationalist of the Force’s relentless committedness to securing the nation, safeguarding its people, and defending its sovereignty.