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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Police Teams Off to Chad, Niger, Cameroun for Joint Patrols |
| 2004-06-30 |
| THE Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun weekend said a team of police officers had been deployed to Niger Republic, Cameroun, and Chad with a view to fine-tuning modalities for joint border patrols. The police boss who dropped this in a chat with Vanguard at his Louis Edet House, Abuja Headquarter of the force weekend said the move was aimed at ensuring a crime free society with special focus on the borders. The IGP explained that having properly sealed off the NigeriaBenin border, it is time to extend the crusade to other neighbouring countries adding, " you can see that since we came on board, our strategy has been to reduce crime rate to the barest minimum and it has been very successful. "Border patrols have started in earnest, you can see with the Nigeria and the Republic of Benin which we did and it was very positive and now we have less cases of trans-border banditary Also just now, a team from Nigeria left for Niger Republic and Cameroun to fine tune arrangements between us. You heard the CP Kastina telling me now on phone that the team had left. "We also have a team that will be going to Chad so that all our borders will be jointly patrolled and that brings a lot of peace. Transnational criminals will be adequately checkmated and it’s a very good development generally.The level of crime and criminal activities has reduced and then we will maintain this tempo and effectiveness. I must thank every police man for doing a good job." The police boss also spoke on the recent introduction of |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |