Police Defend Tinted-glass Permit Policy

The Nigeria Police Force has defended the determination to instrumentality the tinted-glass licence policy, saying that it has led to the betterment of scores of stolen vehicles crossed the country.

The absorption followed the ineligible enactment initiated by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), against the Inspector General of Police implicit the policy.

In a connection signed by the Force Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police said, “It is pertinent to acceptable the records consecutive to debar misinformation to the bully citizens of Nigeria connected the legality of the issuance of tinted permits by the Police.

“Section 2(3a) of the Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act, 2004 empowers the Inspector-General of Police oregon immoderate idiosyncratic duly authorised by him to assistance oregon o.k. the permit.

“Furthermore, Section 1(2) of the aforesaid Act provides that an applicant indispensable amusement bully origin either connected wellness grounds oregon for information reasons earlier the usage of tinted solid tin beryllium approved.”

Hundeyin further explained that the essence of the regularisation was accordant with the halfway mandate of the Police to forestall crimes, describing the licence arsenic a captious instrumentality for curbing convulsive crimes specified arsenic kidnapping, equipped robbery, terrorism, and one-chance operations.

In the aforesaid vein, the Force spokesperson said clarified that the charges attached to the acquisition of the licence were purely processing interest and attraction of integer infrastructure deployed for the service.

Hundeyin maintained that the complaint is good wrong the instrumentality arsenic provided for nether Section 26(e) and (f) of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, which empowers the Police to render specialised services to the nationalist astatine a fee.

“It is worthy to enactment connected grounds that the Force has recorded commendable and important successes with the Electronic Central Motor Registry (e-CMR), done which galore stolen vehicles person been traced and recovered crossed the country, a feat made imaginable by the modernised constabulary specialised services successful enactment with planetary champion practices,” helium added.

The Nigeria Police assured the nationalist “that the alleged claims by individuals and groups that the tinted licence argumentation is not legal, transparent and constitutionally valid are not lone untrue and misleading but besides a calculated effort to formed aspersions connected the image, integrity, and lawful operations of the Force”.

Hundeyin reiterated the unflinching committedness of the Police nether IGP Kayode Egbetokun to upholding the regularisation of instrumentality and safeguarding the cardinal rights of each Nigerians.

He further reassured the nationalist of the Force’s steadfast dedication to professionalism, the relentless pursuit of a safer and much unafraid federation for each and supra all, transparency.