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April 26, 2019
The Acting Inspector General of Police, MohammedAdamu says the force is in the process of acquiring and deploying less lethalweaponry during operations.
Adamu made this known in Osogbo at the inaugurationof a Zonal Security Stakeholders’ Forum, a community policing concept for thePolice Zone-Eleven comprising Ondo, Osun and Oyo states.
The forum was aimed at galvanising the people of thethree states toward identifying and partnering with the police to addresspeculiar security challenges.
The Police Boss, who was represented by the DeputyInspector General of Police, Taiwo Lakanu said he had commenced the process ofaddressing factors that engender conflict and distrust between the citizens andthe police, particularly issues bordering on misuse of firearms and sundryabuses of police powers.
He also ordered that the shift duty structure of theNigeria Police, which is currently a twelve-hour, two-shift system be revertedto the traditional eight-hours, three-shifts standard.