This was made known on Tuesday in a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.
The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the deployment of 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the Intelligence Department of the Nigeria Police Force at Zonal and State Commands level across the country.
This was made known on Tuesday in a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.
Adejobi stated that the IGP, who tasked the officers on strengthening security emplacements in their respective place of primary assignment, said that the posting was in furtherance of the upscaling of the intelligence department of the Police Force.
According to the Force spokesperson, 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.
Adejobi recalled that the IGP on assumption of duty, reactivated 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.
“The posting is with immediate effect,” the Force spokesperson said.