The Nigeria Police Force has acquired equipment that would assist in solving
tough cases like kidnapping, bank robbery, identity theft and other such crimes.
The equipment include:
forensic laboratory, digital resource centre, modern interrogation room,
surveillance tracking device and, aerial surveillance systems.
The Inspector-General of Police Solomon Arase, who spoke in Abuja while
commissioning the equipment, noted that they had the capacity to collect,
store, merge and display the identity of targeted criminal elements, even at the
crime scene.
Arase explained that the facility will complement the existing forensic laboratory
in Lagos.
His words: “The Nigeria Police Force has been grappling with weak forensic
capacity, which has been a major factor in our inability to manage complex
criminal situations.
“The asset is a traditional scientific investigation tool of police department all
over the world. It is also a personal identity management system that the force
ought to have had long before now.
“The facility has a wide variety of applications for the positive identification of
suspects through their fingerprints, iris and facial recognition functions. It is
designed to collect, store, merge and display the identity of the targeted
criminal element, even at the scene of crime.”
Arase said the system can also convert existing manual record of arrested
suspects into digital format.
He said the procurement of the facility was in line with the directive of President
Muhammadu Buhari that all data-capturing government agencies should
harmonise their data before the end of 2016.
Urging his men to embrace technology, the IG said:
“Let me remind you that modern policing is no longer by power, might or extra-
judicial means, it is driven by application of technology, forensic science,
intelligence and above all, citizen’s consent."
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