Intelligence Cooperation Among West African Police Services Ensured Arrest Of Evans- IGP
Statement from Force Public Relations Officer;
Intelligence Cooperation Among West African Police Services Ensured Arrest Of Evans- IGP
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has attributed the
arrest of Chukwujeme Onwamadike, the suspected kidnapper popularly known
as Evans, to information sharing and intelligence cooperation among
police services in West Africa.
2. “Information sharing is crucial to tackling the menace of
trans-border crimes in West Africa; it is through such exchange that we
were able to nab a Ghanaian/Nigerian kidnapper two weeks ago, after
evading arrest for many years,” Idris said on Wednesday.
Idris spoke in Accra, Ghana in a paper titled: “The role of Nigeria
Police in national security and its contributions in West Africa”,
delivered at an ongoing West Africa international security conference.
3. “For several years, Evans terrorized Nigerians and nationals of many
countries across West Africa. Efforts to apprehend him did not yield the
desired results until we spread our search net wider,” he said. The
police chief, who solicited closer ties among security agencies in the
sub-region, emphasized the need to improve the method of monitoring and
surveillance, particularly among border and coastal police units.
4. Idris called for improved communication capabilities among
intelligence gathering outfits in West Africa, and called for mutual
support to plug loopholes usually exploited by criminals. He said that
the Nigeria Police Force had 300,000 personnel in 127 area commands and
5303 divisions, adding that the force had consistently contributed to
stability and peace in ECOWAS nations and under UN mandates.
5. “The Nigeria Police Force trained 250 Liberian Police personnel in
2005 and has consistently offered training slots to police officers from
Gambia and Sierra Leone at the Police Staff College, Jos and the Police
Academy, Wudil. “We also trained 100 police officers from the Republic
of Niger on mobile police combat in 1998. At the end of the training,
Nigeria donated trucks, riot equipment and tear smoke to the Nigerien
government,” he said.
6. Idris said that the Nigeria Police Force also helped to stabilise
Guinea Bissau in 2012, when the military intervened in its leadership
and truncated democracy. “Our police personnel remained there until
democracy was restored in 2014,” he stated.
7. The IGP expressed Nigeria’s readiness to consistently cooperate with
police formations in other countries to track down criminals, pointing
out that such mutual cooperation had become even more necessary as
technology had reduced the world to a small village.
CSP JIMOH MOSHOOD
Force Public Relations Officers
Force Headquarters
Category: Nigeria National News
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Well done Nigeria police.
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