DIG leads team for scooping, assessment in North East as police moves to restore civil authority

Solomon-Arase, IGP

The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Department of Operations, DIG Sotonye Wakama, is leading a team of intelligence officers on a need assessment and other scooping operation towards the restoration of civil authority in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, some of the liberated areas in the North East.

Speaking during an interactive session organised by the Senate, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase, had stated that the Police is carrying out a scooping mission aimed at relieving the military of some duties for law and order to be restored in the part of the country.

The IGP noted that guaranteeing the safety of persons and property, and restoring public trust in the maintenance of order and stability remain the cardinal keys in re-establishing a working society after violent conflict.

He further said the Nigeria Police Force will deploy more personnel and equipment to the North East to provide Police security and to create a secure environment necessary for the return of IDPs to their respective communities.

He reiterated that the police places a high value on the preservation of human life and believed that the prevention of crime is its number one operational priority and will therefore involve the community in the delivery of these services.

He added that Police operational response will result to an improved quality of life for citizens.

IGP Arase, therefore, calls on all stakeholders, especially the press to give maximum cooperation to Police officers and other law enforcement agencies to ensure the restoration of civil authority and successful integration of the people who were displaced by the activities of the Boko Haram insurgency.