Gbenro Adesina
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, today revealed that 21,296 highly dangerous criminal suspects were arrested in the year 2020.
Adamu added that 3,347 firearms, 133,496 ammunition and 960 stolen vehicles were recovered and 1,002 kidnap victims rescued in the year 2020.
Reviewing the scorecard of police operations at the Force CID and Force Intelligence Bureau, Adamu assured Nigerians of improved security in the year 2021.
He stressed that the Force would be unrelenting in the fight against all forms of crimes especially kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry, cultism, cybercrime, Sexual/Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), amongst others in the country in the year 2021.
According to him, NPF would implement aggressive, proactive, intelligence-driven and community-based crime fighting strategies in its quests to make the country safer.
He promised that the Force would take the battle to the door steps of the criminals and also expand its collaboration with the citizens and other Law Enforcement Agencies in its bid to flush out criminal elements in the country.
