OYO NSCDC Commences Forensic Evaluation for Arms-Bearing Personnel

The Oyo State Commandant of the NSCDC, Adaralewa Michael, made this known at the Command Headquatres, Agodi, Ibadan, while declaring open the forensic evaluation of the 1,550 arms-bearing personnel of the Oyo state Command in various units and departments.

This included Agro-Rangers, Counter Terrorism, Armed Squad, regular officers, female armed squad undergoing training and Operations,  to mention but a few.

In a statement signed by the CD PRO, CSC Oluwole Olusegun, Adaralewa noted that the evaluation became necessary to ensure that arms-bearing personnel are well behaved and disciplined whenever they are on duty or relating with members of the public.

He said it is a concept which falls within the core policy of the Commandant General, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi mni, to rejig, revamp, resuscitate, restructure and reposition the Corps for better service to the nation.

According to the statement, the OC Forensic and Behavioral Unit of the National Headquarters of the NSCDC, Dr Tersoo Shaapera, who was represented by Dr Olawale Folarin, stated that the psychological profiling and forensic evaluation of the arms-bearing personnel is to assess the type of personnel NSCDC is working with in terms of their Intelligence Quotient (IQ) for them to deliver effectively responsibilities assigned to them.

He said it would also help in having comprehensive data of all the arms-bearing staff.

He said it is important to test the arms-bearing personnel to know the psychological balance or imbalance of the officers so as to hand arms and weapons to those whose brains and psyche are okay and normal for effective service delivery and for the Corps to achieve greater success.

The statement says, the convener, the OC Forensic and Behavioral Unit of the Oyo State Command, DSC Olaniregun Jude, explained that the psychological evaluation of personnel in Oyo State was preceeded by the Corps’ 4th annual sensitisation lecture with the theme: “Forensic: An Emerging Tool at the Disposal of the Justice System in Nigeria.”

He disclosed that the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, who was one of the speakers at the lecture, did justice to the theme by x-raying the role of the Judiciary in the use and application of forensics in criminal matters and encouraged investigating officers to clear their biases before interrogation.

He said it would also give fair hearing to suspects and apply forensics in criminal and civil matters with integrity.