Police killings: Relief as IGP announces plans to introduce tasers, stun guns, reduce dependence on lethal weapons

- The acting IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has disclosed that the police are in the process of acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry during operations

- The IGP said he had commenced the process of addressing factors that engender conflict and distrust between citizens and the police

- Adamu said under the new policy, personnel on low-risk policing duties will be armed with taser guns or stun guns

- The police chief said the new initiatives were directed at closing the trust gap between the police and citizens

The acting inspector general of police, Mohammed Adamu, says the Nigeria Police Force is in the process of acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry during operations.

Adamu made this known on Thursday, April 25 in Osogbo at the inauguration of a Zonal Security Stakeholders’ Forum, a community policing concept for the Police Zone XI comprising Ondo, Osun and Oyo, NAN reports.

Legit.ng gathers that the forum was aimed at galvanising the people of the three states toward identifying and partnering with the police to address peculiar security challenges.

The IGP, who was represented by the deputy inspector general of police, Taiwo Lakanu, said he had commenced the process of addressing factors that engender conflict and distrust between the citizens and the police, particularly issues bordering on misuse of firearms and sundry abuses of police powers.

“Toward this end, we are in the process of migrating from total dependence on lethal weaponry as first line of police operations toward acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry such as taser or stun guns.

“Under the new policy, personnel on low-risk policing duties like routine patrols, arrest duties, and civil disorder management will be armed with taser guns or stun guns as a strategic approach toward reducing incidents of fatalities associated with misapplication of lethal weapons by the police when faced with low level threats,’’ he said.

He also ordered that the shift duty structure of the Nigeria Police, which is currently a 12-hour, two-shift system should be reverted to the traditional eight-hours, three-shifts shift standard.

Adamu said the medical service of the police had also been directed to introduce emotional intelligence, stress management and cognitive therapy toward enhancing the psychological and emotional stability of all police personnel while on duty.

He said all these initiatives were directed at closing the trust gap between the police and the citizens as well as create a conducive condition for partnership between them.

Adamu commended the foresight, professional depth and sense of commitment to duty of AIG Adeleye Oyebade, the assistant inspector general of police in charge of Zone XI, Osogbo, for conceptualising and driving the process of inaugurating the stakeholders’ forum.

He said he had initiated actions toward inaugurating a Nigeria Police Community Policing Implementation Standing Committee.

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Recall that Legit.ng previously reported that a 20-year-old lady and a young man with her were shot by police officers in the Ajegunle area of Lagos.

The girl, identified as Ada Ifeanyi, died as a result of the shooting, while the man, Emmanuel Akomafuwa, sustained grievous injuries. The incident occurred on Saturday, April 13, around 7am.

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