IGP Appoints New Director In charge Of Peacekeeping, Lauds Personnel
Afimag.com –
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has lauded the members of the Nigeria Police Force contingent to peacekeeping operations on the African Continent.
Usman Alkali also commended personel around the world for reducing violence in countries and ensuring peace.
The Boss has recently appointed the Commissioner of Police, ACP Augustine Moses Jagaba as Director in charge of the Peacekeeping Directorate.
ACP Jagaba holds a Bachelors in Microbiology at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is currently undergoing his Masters in Security and Strategic Studies from the Nasarawa State University, Keffi.
He has served in various capacities within the Force and has participated in peacekeeping operations in Dafur, Sudan, and Haiti.
The IGP noted that the Nigeria Police Force has over the years deployed manpower and material assets to peacekeeping operations all around the world.
Since its first participation in Peacekeeping in 1960 with the deployment of a contingent to Congo, the list of countries with police peacekeepers is now endless.
Nigeria Police peacekeepers have participated in operations in Congo, Namibia, Angola, Western Sahara, Cambodia, Mozambique, Somalia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, East Timor, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Cote D’Ivoire, Burundi, Haiti, Sudan, South Sudan and Guinea Bissau to mention but a few.
The Nigeria Police has deployed more than thirteen thousand (13,000) police officers to various UN/AU and ECOWAS peacekeeping operations.
The Nigeria Police Peacekeeping office was established in 2005 to coordinate peacekeeping activities with the clear vision and mission to research, train and equip officers with requisite skills.
Competencies required to meet complex peace support operations environment through the delivery of quality internationally recognized and professional training.
Nigeria Police Officers have made tremendous achievements while on peace keeping abroad and clinched glory for the Force and the country at large.
The Inspector-General of Police has charged the new Director to strictly uphold the tenets of the Nigeria Police in peacekeeping selection, training, deployments while reinforcing the various positive achievements that have been recorded over the years.
He further admonished the Director to domesticate standards and principles of modern policing via-a-vis training of police officers, review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Baton and Rifles Exercises (BARE), musketry, range practices, unarmed combat, etc. to boost quality service delivery of the NPF in maintaining law and order, and public safety in Nigeria.
