Immigration seeks police collaboration on security
Musa said this during a courtesy visit to the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, at the Nigeria Police Headquarters, according to a statement on Tuesday.
He said, “It is not just enough to dwell on the challenges facing a security agency alone, which is why we are seeking collaboration with the Nigeria Police in the area of capacity building.
“The need for training is to sharpen their skills to face the new challenges by improving fitness, endurance, weapons handling and counter terrorism techniques.
“We have dispatched patrol bikes to border states in northern Nigeria to patrol areas that cannot be accessed by patrol vehicles. I request that the next batch of Immigration operatives that will be dispatched to the Joint Task Force should be trained at the Force Mobile Training School, Gwoza, Borno State, and another 1,000 regular border patrol operatives at the same school.”
Abubakar promised to partner the NIS in training its men, acknowledging that one of the greatest challenges facing security agencies was the dearth of contemporary tools to work with.
CULLED FROM: PUNCH NEWSPAPERS
February 20, 2013 by Sodiq Oyeleke
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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