By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent, Lagos/
ABUJA- POLICE Authority in Abuja has announced that it was collaborating with Akwa Ibom State Government with a view to hosting the 2022 Officers’ conference in the state. Sources said this year’s conference and retreat will hold between February 7 and 8 2022 adding that it was strictly meant for senior Police officers from the ranks of DIGs down to Commissioners of Police CPs and Heads of Police formations.
A statement by the Force PRO, CP Frank Mba made available to CrimeWorld magazine online quoted the IGP as saying that the conference would further afford senior officers at identifying and setting measurable crime fighting agenda for the force.
It added that the two day retreat would also afford officers and heads of formations to select public safety experts with a view to cross fertilizing ideas towards effective crime fighting. The conference was being coordinated by Matchmakers Consult International – the approved facilitators of the event.
The statement reads in full: “The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, with the support of His Excellency, Udom Emmanuel, the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, will on 7th and 8th February, 2022, host a 2-day Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers comprising Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs), Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) and Commissioners of Police, and other Heads of Police Formations, in the beautiful city of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State Capital.
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The Conference and Retreat, themed The New Police Vision: A Roadmap for Stabilizing Internal Security in Nigeria, is part of efforts by the current Police leadership to collaborate with critical stakeholders in driving a policing vision that would amongst other benefits, avail Police Strategic Managers with contemporary and vantage opportunities to effectively deliver on their mandates. It will also afford the Police leadership the opportunity to identify and set measurable crime fighting agenda for the Force in the year 2022.
The IGP notes that the Conference and Retreat will equally provide a unique opportunity for the Strategic Managers of the Force and carefully selected Public Safety Experts to engage in peer review and cross fertilization of ideas for improved internal security management in the country. This is in addition to providing new traction for driving the new NPF policy aimed at modernization, re-orientation and re-tooling of the Force.
The IGP, while assuring the nation of concerted efforts at improving Police service delivery, public safety and crime management in the year 2022 and beyond, expresses belief that the Retreat will help to evolve new pathways to tackling crimes and other law enforcement challenges in the Country.
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