The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, IGP Solomon Arase (retd.) has said the commission and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) were going through challenging period of its existence, stressing that crime across the world has become so scientific and requires that those that will fight it (Police) must be scientific in its approach.
Arase noted that oversight responsibilities have become so vast and challenging that the commission also needed to be properly equipped and trained to make a success of the assignment.
PSC Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, in a press statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the police boss made the statement when he received in audience a delegation from the Chartered Institute of Forensics and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria at the Corporate Headquarters of the Commission in Jabi, Abuja.
The spokesperson said Arase noted that cyber bullying, criminal financial/banking attacks, and other complex crimes were threatening various sectors of the nation’s fledgling democracy
Accordong to the PSC chairman, both the Police and the Commission would need to quickly step up in order to contain these emerging challenges adding that these two government Alagencies should also be properly equipped and trained to carry out successfully its constitutional mandates.
The former police boss insisted that policing should be more visible at the local level especially at the divisional centres, where he regretted have been abandoned creating a lot of ungoverned spaces where non state actors have since taken over.
He said there was need for continuous recruitment of police men to populate the communities and recover the ungoverned spaces and restore security of lives and properties across the nation.
Arase assured that the commission would partner with the institute to fight off the menace of the emerging financial and other crimes in the country adding that he is an advocate of out- sourcing of skills that are lacking in a system.
He promised that officials of the Institute would be used as Resource persons at Police Colleges so that the trainnees are exposed to cyber and other complex crime prevention at that level.
Earlier, the leader of the delegation, the Institute’s pioneer President and Chairman Governing Council, Dr. Iliaysu Buba Gashinbaki, commended the PSC chairman for the good work he was doing at the commission, which he said was a product of Arase’s impeccable record at the NPF where he rose to the highest rank of IGP.
Gashinbaki disclosed that the institute was a unique and committed to supporting capacity building in crime investigation.
He noted that the Institute will be ready to work with the Commission in its mandate responsibilities of Police Recruitment, Promotion and Discipline and more especially investigation.
