…Charges Cadet Lawyers on improved investigation
By Hassan Zaggi
Concerned by the level of decay of infrastructure in most police barracks and offices in different parts of the country, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali, has assured that the Force under his watch is committed to eliminating substandard structures and replacing them with modern, efficient building projects nationwide.
On the other hand, the IGP has charged Law cadets on training at the Nigeria Police Academy (POLAC), Wudil, Kano State, to be deliberate in developing what he described as, refined mooting and advocacy skills necessary for insightful investigations and improved prosecution of criminal matters in courts
He made the disclosure while commissioning the newly completed Moot Court Building for the Faculty of Law at the Police Academy, in Kano during his one-day visit.
The IGP also commissioned other newly completed projects within the Police Academy including an ICT Building, a Digital Forensic Laboratory, an Indoor Sports Complex, Indoor Shooting Range, Post Graduate hostel, Administrative building, gate house, newly constructed road network, and a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) intervention sponsored Lecture Auditorium.
The IGP, however, reiterated his commitment to capacity building, particularly of young officers undergoing training.
This, according to him, is to entrench in them the tenets of professionalism, sportsmanship, and community-oriented policing.
In the same vein, the IGP also commissioned a model Police Area Command structure for the Ringim Area Command Headquarters and barracks accommodation for officers and men serving at the Area Command Headquarters.
The structures, according to a statement by the Force Spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi (CSP), are in line with the model police station concept of the IGP designed for efficiency and effectiveness in discharging policing services.
