The President Nigeria Society for Criminology (NSC), Professor Oludayo Tade, has admonished the Acting Inspector General of Police Mr. Tunji Disu to decentralize tactical squad to zonal commands for efficiency and proactive response to crime.
The NSC president noted that empowering zonal commands with the best hands and modern policing gadgets would ensure prompt response time to crime and improve the success rate.
Professor Tade, who congratulated the IGP on his appointment in a press release signed personally by him, emphasized the need for Mr. Tunji Disu to deploy his experiences to check the rising wave of crimes and criminality in the country.
He also advised the new IGP to ensure that men of the Nigeria police are exposed to contemporary training in modern policing strategies and technology.
The NSC president also called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to support the Nigeria police with increased funding to improve their capacity and welfare in order to empower them to protect lives and properties as the leading agency in internal security
Professor Tade, who stated that the track records of the Acting IGP are stories of expertise and result-oriented policing, added that Nigeria needs to experience the security of lives and properties through the police.
While stating that the Nigeria Society for Criminology is ready to partner with the police in providing evidence-based research findings that could improve policing and intelligence, the NSC president urged the Mr. Disu to prioritize the welfare of serving and retired officers, noting that a “motivated police officer will give his best to the service of her fatherland while ill-motivated ones are dangerous to the system and the society”.
According to the professor of criminology, victimology and security studies, the IGP needs to deepen interagency collaboration to achieve more success, saying that “contemporary national security threats requires all security agencies to cooperate, collaborate and coordinate. It is through collaboration that we can bring end to the criminals threatening Nigeria’s existence. Police must work with other sister agencies and share intelligence.”
He noted that the work of Nigeria’s security agencies would be minimal if the federal and state governments could reduce poverty, unemployment, and inequality, which are some of the causes of crime in Nigeria.
