IGP Upscales Intelligence department, posts 54 Assistant Commissioners

Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, IGP Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of fifty-four (54) Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the Intelligence Department of the Force at Zonal and State Commands level Nationwide.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Force Public Relation officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the posting is premised on the zeal of the IGP to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the Intelligence Department at every level of the Force as a panacea to addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement.

It will be recalled that the IGP on assumption of duty re-activated the Presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau to the status of a Department, with the appointment of DIG Habu Sanni, as the DIG in charge of the new Department of Force Intelligence.

The IGP has however, tasked the newly appointed Senior Officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.

He has further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force.