The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu says the force is in the process of acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry during operations.
Adamu made this known in Osogbo at the inauguration of a Zonal Security Stakeholders’ Forum, a community policing concept for the Police Zone-Eleven comprising Ondo, Osun and Oyo states.
The forum was aimed at galvanising the people of the three states toward identifying and partnering with the police to address peculiar security challenges.
The Police Boss, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Taiwo Lakanu said he had commenced the process of addressing factors that engender conflict and distrust between the citizens and the police, particularly issues bordering on misuse of firearms and sundry abuses of police powers.
He also ordered that the shift duty structure of the Nigeria Police, which is currently a twelve-hour, two-shift system be reverted to the traditional eight-hours, three-shifts standard.
