The Minister of Police Affairs, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam, has asked the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) to equip the Nigeria Police Force with both local
and foreign sophisticated professional training to enable them tackle terrorism, kidnapping and other high crimes in the country.
Reacting to funding issues for professional training for police personnel outside the country, he urged the NPTF to ensure that the process of training officers is strictly managed within the available funds rather than jettisoning necessary training for police personnel. “The Executive Secretary and his team should come up with a strategic plan for sending personnel on training outside the country while continuing to patronise local training available in the country. We need to send some of our personnel outside Nigeria to get highly sophisticated training that would enable them to tackle crimes in the country.”
In her contributions, the Minister of State, stated that in perfecting statecraft, international norms and best practices, will be deployed in training and retraining, operations will be standardised, infrastructure will be updated, and work tools will be developed to strengthen the professionalism of security personnel.
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