Nigeria’s Inspector General Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba has called on the United Nations (UN) to make policies that will promote sustainable peace and development amongst its member nations, as well as render necessary assistance towards improved policing systems across the globe.
Baba made the call Thursday while addressing the 3rd United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS) in the United States of America.
At the summit under the theme: Fostering Sustainable Peace and Development through United Nations Policing, IGP declared Nigeria Police commitment to extending its manpower for effective peace operations where necessary.
Recall that Baba has earlier promised and assured Nigerians of his commitment to harness all available means, both kinetic and non kinetic, to improve policing system in Nigeria with a view to curbing and suppressing crimes and criminality in Nigeria.
This, according to a press release signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi forms the crux and fulcrum of the IGP attendance at the summit.
The IGP seized the opportunity to meet with and engage the Under-Secretary-General, Department of Peace Operations, United Nations Headquarters, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, where they deliberated on many policing ideas as they affect the Nigeria Police Force and global security in general.
Similarly, Baba met with the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammad.
As a round-off on the summit, the IGP will be visiting Washington DC today (Friday) to meet with the Director of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Agency, a United States agency that has been supportive in the training and capacity building programmes of the NPF.
UNCOPS, third of its kind, is a global platform that brings together Heads of Police Organizations from around the globe to discuss ways of strengthening global security and addressing cross-border threats through the unifying power of national and United Nations policing.