IGP Patrols Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, Deploys Tactical Squads, Drones

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba, on Saturday, patrolled the entire 163km stretch of the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway following Monday’s terrorist attack.

The IGP’s patrol was aimed at a hands-on assessment of the security challenges and to also personally supervise the operational deployment of officers drawn from the Police tactical squads along the route.

A statement signed by Chief Superintendent Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Ag. Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters in Abuja, the IGP in the course of the patrol, mapped out salient and strategic points along the expressway.

The spots were immediately fortified with the deployment of operatives drawn from the Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Special Forces (SF), Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Special Tactical Squad (STS), as well as airwing operatives in charge of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones).

During the patrol, IGP Alkali equally visited personnel of the Armed Forces and Police deployed at Rijana to secure the technical crew of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) undertaking repair works at the damaged train coaches and rail line in the axis, to boost their morale and assess the state of their post.

The Police boss assured that with the strategic and operational deployment of officers along the route, normalcy would be restored.

He tasked members of the public on active intelligence sharing with law enforcement agencies for effective policing of all spaces.