{"id":32341,"date":"2020-11-13T19:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32341"},"modified":"2020-11-13T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:17:16","slug":"nigeria-gets-new-special-police-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-gets-new-special-police-unit","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria gets new special police unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa Press-Nigeria<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Police Force now has a new special unit.<\/p>\n

The new unit is the Special Constabulary Police.<\/p>\n

Officers, who were listed as special constables into the new unit had their passing-out parade across the federation on Friday.<\/p>\n

The special constables, are to perform the much-talked about community policing duties.<\/p>\n

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In Ogun State, about 320 new officers were said to have been arrested trained at the Police Training School, Iperu.<\/p>\n

The Commandant of the training school, Abdulsalam Razaq, said the new intakes were indigenes of the 20 local governments in Ogun.<\/p>\n

According to him, they would be deployed to their various local governments to assist the police in modern policing and to stem the spate of crimes in their communities.<\/p>\n

Rasaq disclosed that the special constables have been well trained on how best to perform police duties, intelligence gathering and respect for human rights.<\/p>\n

In his words, the parade reviewing officer, Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, urged the newly recruited officers to make good use of the trainings they have received some far.<\/p>\n

Adamu, who was represented by the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, appealed to the special constables to perform their duties diligently in life with internal best practices.<\/p>\n

He told them to respect the human rights, saying whoever engaged in any unprofessional conduct would be shown the way out.<\/p>\n