The
Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday deployed three contingents of the
Formed Police Unit made up of 400 personnel to Sudan and Liberia in
support of the United Nations mission in Liberia and the African Union –
United Nations’ Hybrid operation in Dafur.
The Inspector-General of Police,
Mohammed Abubakar, who addressed the men at the Force Headquarters
parade ground in Abuja, tasked them to be good ambassadors of the police
and the nation.
He said that Nigeria police contingents
were currently on international peacekeeping assignments in nine
countries, including Cote D’voire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea
Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
The IG assured the contingents that the
police authorities had made ample provision for their welfare, material
and logistics support and charged them to be focused and to “avoid
cutting corners.”
The high point of the occasion was the
tactical demonstration by the contingents on operational skills and
tactics on crowd and riots control and other ancillary policing
strategies in line with global best practices in policing and the UN
standards.
In attendance at the demonstration
exercise by the contingents were the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria,
Mr. Rof Ree, members of the Police Management Team, Senior Police and
Military Officers, including the Nigeria Defence Attachee to China,
Brig. General Aliyu, and members of the Diplomatic Corps.
Meanwhile, the Comptroller-General of
Immigration, David Padarang has raised the alarm over the activities of
fraudsters who cloned his email and set up a fake Facebook account in
his name through which they had been defrauding the public by soliciting
money from them in return for job placements with the Nigerian
Immigration Service.
A statement by the NIS Public Relations
Officer, Emeka Obua asked Nigerians to be wary of the criminals,
stressing that the CG has not mandated anyone to solicit for money on
behalf of the NIS.
PUNCH NG
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