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The President of the Nigeria Society for Criminology (NSC), Professor Oludayo Tade, has charged the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tunji Disu, to decentralise tactical squads to zonal commands to improve efficiency and proactive crime response.
The NSC president said that prompt response time to crime and improvement on success rate would be ensured when zonal commands are empowered with the best hands and modern policing gadgets.
Professor Tade, who congratulated the IGP on his appointment in a press release he personally signed, emphasised the need for IGP Disu to deploy his experiences to check the rising wave of crimes and criminality in the country.
He also advised the new IGP on the need to expose men of the Nigeria police to contemporary training in modern policing strategies and technology.
The NSC president urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to support the Nigeria police with increased funding to improve their capacity and welfare in order to empower them to protect lives and property as the leading agency in internal security
Professor Tade, who applauded the track records of the IGP on stories of expertise and result-oriented policing, added that Nigeria needs to experience the security of lives and property through the police.
While stating that the Nigeria Society for Criminology is ready to partner with the police in providing evidence-based research findings that could improve policing and intelligence, the NSC president urged IGP Disu to prioritise the welfare of serving and retired officers, noting that a “motivated police officer will give his best to the service of her fatherland while ill-motivated ones are dangerous to the system and the society”.
According to the professor of criminology, victimology and security studies, the IGP needs to deepen interagency collaboration to achieve more success, saying that “contemporary national security threats require all security agencies to cooperate, collaborate and coordinate.
“It is through collaboration that we can bring end to the criminals threatening Nigeria’s existence. Police must work with other sister agencies and share intelligence.”
He noted that the work of Nigeria’s security agencies would be minimal if the federal and state governments could reduce poverty, unemployment, and inequality, which are some of the causes of crime in Nigeria.