January 23, (THEWILL) – The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate posting of Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the intelligence departments of the Force at zonal and state command levels nationwide.
The Force PRO, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, announced this in a statement on Tuesday.
According to Adejobi, the posting was 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.
THEWILL recalls that on assumption of duty, IGP Egbetokun had reactivated the presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) 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.
