Police Train Officers To Combat New Security Challenges

Worried by the country’s incessant security challenges, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has trained its senior officers in executive capacity building to tackle complex security issues.

The training, held yesterday with the theme, ‘Managing fast-paced security challenges in a protracted conflict environment’, was organised by The society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP).

At the event, the inspector-general of police (IGP) Kayode Egbetukun said, “The theme of this workshop speaks directly to the “paradox of our times; conflicts that stretch across years, yet change form and intensity daily.

“We face adversaries who are not only persistent but adaptive. Criminal syndicates exploit technology to expand their reach. Terrorist networks rebrand and reorganise to avoid defeat. Local conflicts, once contained, now spill across borders, amplified by social media and transnational alliances.

This complexity demands more from us than courage alone. It demands foresight, creativity and the agility to lead in an environment of constant flux.

“Our leadership must combine patience with speed, endurance with imagination and strategy with unshakable resolve. That is why this theme has been carefully chosen to prepare you, as leaders, to anticipate, to adapt and to act decisively in an environment where hesitation is costly and speed is survival. To this end, this one-day training workshop has been thoughtfully designed to enrich your leadership journey.

“What we seek through this workshop is not just individual learning, but collective transformation. The Nigeria Police Force must grow into an institution that is agile in planning, bold in execution, and united in vision. Our success will not be measured by the brilliance of one commander or the courage of a few units, but by the strength of our collective capacity to anticipate threats, to respond as one body, and to deliver security that Nigerians can see and feel every day,” he said.

The president of SPSP, Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, said the training aligned with the policing vision of Egbetokun, which emphasises adherence to legal frameworks, proactive crime prevention, technological innovation in intelligence gathering, and robust inter-agency collaboration.