In a new command structure arrangement in the Nigeria Police, the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) has been formally excised from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID).
It is henceforth to
become a full-fledged department to be headed by a Deputy Inspector-General of
Police (DIG).
This follows a re-organisation
of departments of the Force by President Muhammadu Buhari, who also approved
the creation of five zonal commands for the Force.
The five newly created
commands are Ondo/Ekiti command with headquarters at Akure, Ondo State and
Enugu/Anambra/Ebonyi Command with headquarters in Ukpo-Dunukofia in Anambra
State.
Others are
Balyelsa/Rivers command with headquarters in Yenogoa,Bayelsa State;
Katsina,/Kaduna command with headquarters in Katsina; Yobe/Borno command with
headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State.
According to the
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, the new structure is expected
to fully integrate intelligence-led policing strategy and community policing.
Reports say, two
additional annex offices of the department are to be established in Enugu to
take care of investigations of major crimes emanating from the South-east and
South-south geo political zones, while the second in Gombe State would take care
of investigations from the North-east geo-political zone.
The new annex offices
are in addition to the existing anex offices in Lagos and Kaduna, while the
FCID annex offices in Lagos, Kaduna, Enugu and Gombe states would be headed by
Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs). They are to report to the DIGs
in charge of the FCID, at the Force Headquarters Abuja.
The president also
approved a new structure for the four police colleges in the country located in
Kaduna, Ikeja, Maiduguri and Orji-River, to enhance training and capacity
development of the junior cadre of the Force.
Also approved was the
status of the commandants of the colleges be upgraded to the rank of Assistant
Inspector-General of Police (AIG) and this will strengthen administration,
enhance the commitment of staff and engender higher level of discipline and the
quality of training at the colleges.
The approvals were
granted in order to expand and strengthen the intelligence department towards
driving the intelligence-led policing strategy of the force leadership and to
aid in the entrenchment of the community policing practice as approved by the
federal government, it was gathered.
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