By Hassan Zaggi
The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase, has disclosed that the rate of crime and criminality across the world has become sophisticated and scientific hence, require scientific approach to tackle them.
He insisted that for the police to be able to confront the current security challenges, they need regular training and retraining so as to update their knowledge on current security challenges globally.
Speaking with he received a delegation from the Chartered Institute of Forensics and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria in his office in Abuja, Dr. Arase, revealed that the PSC and the Nigeria Police Force are going through challenging period of their existence.
He insisted that oversight responsibilities have become so vast and challenging that the Commission also requires to be properly equipped and trained to make a success of its assignment.
According to Arase, cyber bullying, criminal financial/banking attacks and other complex crimes are currently threatening various sectors of the nation’s fledgling democracy.
He noted that both the Police and the Commission would need to quickly step up in order to contain these emerging challenges adding that the two government Agencies should also be properly equipped and trained to carry out successfully its constitutional mandates.
In a statement by the PSC Spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, Arase insisted that policing should be more visible at the local level especially at the Divisional centres where he regretted have been abandoned creating a lot of ungoverned spaces where non state actors have since taken over .
The PSC Chairman pledged that his Commission will partner with the Institute to fight the menace of the emerging financial and other crimes in the country.
He promised that officials of the Institute would be used as Resource persons at Police Colleges so that the trainees are exposed to cyber and other complex crime prevention at that level.
. Earlier, the Institute’s Pioneer President and Chairman of the Governing Council who led the delegation, Dr. Iliaysu Buba Gashinbaki, applauded the PSC Chairman for the good work he has brought to the Commission.
He noted that the Institute will be ready to work with the Commission in its mandate responsibilities of Police Recruitment, Promotion and Discipline and more especially investigation.
