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Nigeria: Poland, UK to Train Police
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This Day (Lagos)
12 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Onwuka Nzeshi
Abuja
Experts in modern policing drawn from Poland, United Kingdom and United States of America have been contracted to re-train officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force.
The training which is scheduled to last five years is designed to boost the capacity of the Nigeria Police to deliver quality services in the areas of counter terrorism, physical combat, disarmament, crowd control as well as the use of specially trained dogs for detecting drugs, explosives, search and rescue operations. The training programme has already received the approval of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro and will soon be mounted at designated Police Colleges in the country.
The scheme, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement will involve the Police Training Committee and First Security Guards Limited, a private security outfit.
Executive Secretary, Police Training Committee, Mr. Frank Ohwofa disclosed this while hosting the Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Grzegorz Walinski and the President, International Police Association (Polish Section) who paid a courtesy visit at the headquarters of the Police Training Committe in Abuja.
Ohwofa said that the involvement of private sector organisation in the maintenace of law and order has become necessary in view of the enormous challenges of modern policing and the dwindling resources available to the Federal Government to adequately fund the operations of the Nigeria Police Force.
THISDAY learnt that the Nigeria Police would also be made to undergo capacity building in the area crime scene investigation, homicide, compilation of criminal database and the use of information technology to keep track of every Nigerian who has any criminal record. "
In the changing world of today, government and institutions invest huge sums of money in the training and re-training of their police for the reinforcement of law and order.
Security challenges of the 21st century cannot be of the same dynamics with that of the 20th century. Today the security challenges are more complex, violent and scientific in nature. There can be no alternative to adequate training and skills acquisition by the Police Force," he said.
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Apart from the training programme being an opportunity to change the trend of sending officers abroad for training, Ohwofa said, it will also give the Nigeria Police Force the opportunity of being adequately trained in her own environment using and improving on the available training facilities.
While the American trainers will be engaged in improving the investigative skills of the Nigerian Police, their counterparts from Poland will concentrate on kennelogy - the use of dogs for special detective operations.
Already the Polish trainers have arrived the country and commenced assessment of police training facilities at the Police College, Ikeja, the Police Staff College Jos and the Police Kenneology Unit, Bukuru, near Jos.
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