PTF Trains 100 Officers On Public Order In Adamawa

The Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) has trained 100 police officers on public order policing/crowd management in Adamawa State.

The special assistant to the executive secretary of PTF, Mr Salihu Abubakar, who opened the two-day capacity building training, said 8,000 police personnel across the country would benefit from the exercise.

Abubakar said the Police Trust Fund has so far trained 5,000 personnel from its inception and hopes to continue the training for improved efficiency to save life and property of citizens.

Abubakar, who represented the executive secretary of the PTF at the training, said the state command was among the beneficiaries of the 28 new divisions with barracks fully equipped with Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, solar power as well as the upgrading of the command for optimal performance.

He said 209 Buffalo trucks, 57 divisional police offices, 14 barracks would be renovated and handed over to the NPF, while weapons tracking system as well as houses would be made available for the police.

According to him, the police fund rehabilitated eight police training schools and colleges in Maiduguri, Jos, Ikeja, Enugu, Oji-River, Toru-Orua and Sokoto and constructed 12 new four-man rural force headquarters in 12 state commands of Ogun, Oyo, Lagos, Katsina, Gombe, Yobe, Borno, Jigawa, Bauchi, Delta and Sokoto.

Earlier, the assistant commissioner of police, Mohammed Umar, who represented the commissioner of police, urged the participants to step down the training to the rank and file in the commands.