The Inspector General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the Intelligence Department of the Force at zonal and state commands level nationwide.
Spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a statement said IGP Egbetokun has tasked the officers to strengthen security nationwide.
Adejobi said the new postings were carried out in furtherance of the upscaling of the intelligence department of the Nigeria Police.
According to the Police spokesperson, the 54 postings are with immediate effect.
“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 as a panacea to addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement,” Adejobi said.
The IGP on assumption of office a few months ago had 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.
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.
