Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Nigerian Police force is one of the best in the world.
According to him, the Nigerian Police force is better trained and better equipped than most of their counterparts around the world. He also said that the government will continue to support it achieve more successes, nationally and globally.
He said this while talking up the Crime and Incident Data Base Centre at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.
He said: “The Nigeria Police is one of the very best that we have anywhere in the world and I say so because I have worked with law enforcement agents for many years. I have served in the United Nations special operations in the justice sector like the UN Mission in Somalia for about a year and I saw Police Forces from everywhere across the world.
“The Nigeria Police was there too and everybody admitted that they were possibly the most effective on ground there in Somalia. They were effective because they were better trained, better educated than every other Police Force that was there, besides, they were well equipped by the UN,” he added.
The Vice President said he was impressed and proud with the commencement of the Crime and Incident Data Base Centre for the Police, adding that Nigeria was ready for smart policing.
Osinbajo said he was confident that the center would truly help the Police address crime using technology.
“The direction that we should be going is smart policing. Policing that is technology serving and based more on common sense and technology than just manually doing everything.
“I think one of the most important things that this Crime Data Base Centre will do is to equip the Police, to be able to do the kind of investigation that is required to cope with crime today,”