Alkali Baba, acting inspector-general of police, says the
disbandment of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) created a vacuum in
policing the country.
Baba said this at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja.
He said the morale of police officers in the country has
been low since the #EndSARS protests in October 2020.
The acting inspector-general of police said the special
weapons and tactics squad (SWAT) established to replace SARS has not yet
commenced operations.
He said the vacuum created by SARS has made it difficult to
tackle most of the violent crimes in the country.
“The security situation of the country has been
significantly stabilise from time to time but we think if it is stabilising
then are isolated insurgency coming from these zones in terms of attacks on
police facilities and police personnel, even all law enforcement agencies
including the military,” he said.
“Therefore, we decided to, one, rejig the morale of our
personnel, which has been a little bit dampened since the #EndSARS thing went.
“With the proscription of SARS and establishment of SWAT,
which has not been able to take off fully. We had a vacuum in tackling most of
the violent crimes from our position of strength.”
On the planned recruitment of 10,000 new police personnel,
he said the process has reached 70 percent and that the exercise is in
compliance with the federal character principle.
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