The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has assured that the Force was committed to the safe rescue of the victims in the recent attack on Government Science College, Kagara in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger state and other related incidents.
The Police boss in a press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Frank Mba, Thursday in Abuja, noted that a massive search and rescue mission involving the Police, the Military and other law enforcement agencies was ongoing to ensure all the victims were rescued unhurt.
The statement read in part, “To give impetus to the rescue operation, the IGP has ordered the deployment of additional tactical, intelligence and investigative assets of the Force including four units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) attached to Operation Puff Adder II; one unit of Police Special Forces; personnel of the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU); operatives from the Force Intelligence Bureau and the Force Criminal Investigations Department and one Police aerial surveillance helicopter has also been deployed.
“The Police component of the search and rescue operation is being coordinated by the Commissioner of Police, Niger State who is effectively harnessing all the deployed resources and working in sync with the Military and other law enforcement agents in ensuring an intelligence-driven, focused and result-oriented ground and aerial surveillance in the rescue operations and to bring the perpetrators to book.”
Mba said the IGP while calling for calm, enjoined members of the community to provide the Force and the security community with useful, relevant, and timely, information that could assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations.
