The efforts of the Inspector General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase-led police management team to deepen policing in Nigeria yesterday received a boost with the institution of partnership ties between the Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Police Forum at the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom.
The Nigeria Police Forum, an association made up of Nigerians serving in British Metropolitan Police are in the country to fashion-out ways to support their father land. The group paid a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Police Headquarters in Abuja.
A statement by the police spokesperson, Emmanuel Ojukwu, the visit was attended by Mr. Robert Hunter (Police Adviser, British High Commission), Mr Tom Outwaite (Police Adviser, British Commission Abuja) and Mrs Matagrawa Nurata from the Ministry of Police Affairs in Abuja.
The statement said Arase in his remarks, stated that the visit was a fall-out of an earlier trip to the Metropolitan Police in UK, and promised to create an enabling environment for fusion of ideas with the group to advance the intelligence and technological base of the Nigeria Police.