New Police Boss, Idris Pledges To Maintain Integrity

Buhari with Acting IGP, Idris

THE Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has pledged that he would make integrity and accountability his watchword throughout his tenure stressing that everything required to improve on the image of the Police will be paramount to him in line with the present President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration policy of eradicating corruption and restoring sanity to the system.

Idris disclosed this in Abuja shortly after the outgoing Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase who retired from service handed him over the mantle of office, and used the opportunity to thank the President for considering him worthy to be entrusted with the noble task of leading the nation’s Police Force...

“In order to establish and maintain high standard of behaviour in our official conduct and to eliminate impunity and ensure transparency in application of the core values, we will ensure that henceforth, it will be against work ethics for any police commander at any level to treat complaints with levity.

“Complaints received from members of the public must be treated within the shortest possible time to the satisfaction of the complainant.

 “In our efforts to give a boost to the current administration’s war on corruption, the police management will strengthen the Police X-Squad units in police commands, with the deployment of thoroughly vetted, selfless and patriotic officers to tackle corruption and abuse of office within the police organization at the federal, state and local government levels.

“The personnel deployed to this anti-corruption unit will be supported with incentives to make them more effective in the discharge of their duties.

“In order to enhance the investigative capacity of the Nigeria Police, concerted effort will be made to establish, at least, one Police forensic laboratory in each of the six geo-political zones of the country.

“This will boost the capacity of the police to effectively and efficiently investigate and prosecute crime within the organization”, Idris said.