Governor, Abdullahi Sule
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has called for
the training of personnel of the Nigeria Police to tackle the
numerous security challenges in the country.
He made the call during on Friday in Karu Local Government Area
of the state.
While describing the disbandment of Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(SARS) as disheartening, the governor called for understanding from
the youths.
“The kind of reforms we would want is to ensure that the police
is well trained and well equipped and that is why it is
disheartening to see that SARS is completely dismantled,” he
said.
“SARS as I understand is the unit that has been trained
specifically to be able to confront armed robber and some kind of
dangers that probably other policemen have not been trained for
that.
“Now that we have dismantled them, whatever form that we have,
we have to go and train them again so I call on us to use the
opportunity not to be throwing away the bathing water and the baby
at the same time.”
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The governor’s call comes three weeks after the
Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, dissolved the infamous
subunit of the force following allegations of police brutality and
human rights violations in the country.
Two days after scrapping SARS, the police boss set up Special
Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, to replace the defunct squad.
The IGP thereafter subjected prospective members of the new team
to a psychological and medical examination to ascertain their
fitness and eligibility for the new assignment.
Beyond that, the IGP also ordered all personnel of the disbanded
SARS to report to the Force headquarters in Abuja for debriefing,
psychological and medical examination.
According to the Force spokesman, Frank Mba, the medical
examination will be carried out by a newly set-up Police
Counselling and Support Unit (PCSU), a unit which the Force says
will, henceforth, engage in psychological management, reorientation
and training of the officers of the force deployed for tactical
operations and other duties.
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