By Gbemiga Olamikan.
The Deputy Inspector General of Police FCID Abiodun Sylvester on behalf of Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has led Nigeria Police Force and other Security agencies to the Conference of International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) 2024 at the Boston Convention Centre, 415, Summer Street, Boston, USA which was declared opened by the association’s President Mr John Letteney. The conference which is having Officers of the Nigeria Police Force and other law enforcement agencies from Nigeria participating is expected to have the general assembly for the convention on Monday, 21st October, 2024 at 10am at the same venue.
This was disclosed by Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. He said the Conference, will have more than 16,000 participants as the conference will offers training and courses in different areas of policing, including forensic investigations, communication, public safety, community-based policing, response to crisis calls, psychological autopsy, election security and many others.
Adejobi said the NPF has over time leveraged on opportunities of Conferences like this, and many others organized by foreign security and law enforcement bodies, including INTERPOL, to heighten the capabilities and policing styles of its personnel across board, in the hope to further sharpen its proficiency.
DIG Sylvester was in the company of other top officers which include AIG Jonathan Towuru, AIG Yekini Ayoku and CP Henry Uche of the NPF-NCCC with Former IGP Ogbonaya Onovo. He further charged all the officers present at the event and participants at the Convention to be good ambassadors of the Force.
Adejobi said it is worthy to note that the Nigeria Police Force has the highest number of officers of the Force as IACP members in Africa, amongst the 34,000 members of the association from 174 countries across the globe.
