IGP okays ACPs to head Police Intelligent Depts

The Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Assistant Commissioners of Police to head the Intelligence Department of the Force at Zonal and state commands nationwide.

The Foerce spokesman, Muyiwas Adejobi said the posting “is premised on the zeal of the IGP to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the Intelligence Department at every level of the Force to address the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement.”

Recall that the IGP on assumption of duty reactivated the Presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau to the status of a Department with the appointment of DIG Habu Sanni, as the DIG in charge of the new Department of Force Intelligence.

Adejobi in a statement said, “The IGP has, however, tasked the newly appointed Senior Officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility. He has further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force

“The posting is with immediate effect.”