Not fewer than 200 police personnel from the Niger State Command were to be trained monthly on capacity development.
Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, CP Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, disclosed this in a statement yesterday as the command began the training and retraining of its personnel, aimed at improving professionalism and ensuring effective service delivery.
The training programme, according to the spokesman of the state police command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, in a release signed by him on behalf of the commissioner, was in compliance with the IGPs directive on training and retraining of personnel towards ensuring capacity development and boosting professionalism and police service delivery in our environment.
In line with this development, the commissioner has directed and initiated a weekly training programme in the command, which has since commenced and is taking place at the Police Training School in Minna and the 12 Police Mobile Force operational training ground in Minna.
The spokesman said that CP Danmamman has directed Area Commanders, or DPOs, to nominate at least one participant weekly to attend the training, which, according to him, consisted of seven area commands and 46 divisions, making a total of 53 participants to be trained weekly.
According to the statement, the training programme, which is highly intellectual and physical in nature, will be centred on the areas of code of conduct, professional attitude, discipline, general human rights provisions, introduction to community policing, basic public relations, NPF social media policy, use of firearms, and combat craft.