Inspector-General of Police Usman Alkali Baba, on Wednesday, visited officers and men of the Nigeria Police in Kwara State, assuring them of better welfare.
The police chief also inspected the Nigeria Police Intelligence School which is under construction in Share, Ifelodun local government area.
“I am here on a one-day visit to appreciate and give words of encouragement to our officers and men in Kwara, as well as tell them what my administration has come to do,” Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba, who was received at the presidential lodge in Ilorin by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, said.
“The government of President Muhammadu Buhari is doing its best efforts to meet our needs. The police reform is also being pursued. Our pension, which is one of the bane of retired police officers, is also being looked at. We have one of our most important institutions in Kwara which is our intelligence school which ought to have taken up since in Share (Ifelodun local government). My mission is to get it take off immediately.”
Alkali said his administration is adopting intelligence gathering and ICT to check crimes and criminalities in the country.
“I have a mission and vision of policing through intelligence and proactive means of policing. Policing is key, ICT is key and training is key. With the three, you can sit down and police the whole state,” he said.
“It is our intention to do manpower development in the art of intelligence gathering so that we will be able to police the country not manually but through e-policing. We can do a lot with proactive policing instead of being reactive. We are asking for more support from your administration to ensure that the school take off.
“We are ready and willing under this administration to make the condition of service more conducive for our officers and men to better serve the people.”
The IGP was accompanied on the visit by AIG Zone 8, Ede Ayuba; AIG Intelligence Abu Sanni; Kwara CP Tuesday Assayomo; and Force Public Relations Officer Frank Mba.