The Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State Command, Emmanuel Ocheja, has charged personnel of the Corps to step up intelligence gathering and ensure that their operations are based on intelligence.
He said this at the NSCDC headquarters in Osogbo during a workshop organized for the officers of the Intelligence and Investigation Department in the Command.
Ocheja noted that successful security operations rely on credible intelligence and urged operatives to step up intelligence gathering mechanism.
The Head of Department, Intelligence and Investigation, Deputy Commandant of Corps (DCC) Augustine Padonu stressed the need for the Intelligence and Investigation Department to redefine its purpose, navigate through another path and fine tune a robust methodology to ensure a better performance.
He also re-emphasized the importance of intelligence and Investigations in the security architecture; as it helps in providing actionable, proactive, classical intelligence information and the general security of life and property not minding whose ox is gored.
In his lecture titled ” Methodology of Statement Writing,” the Deputy Superintendent of Corps (DSC) Stephen Oyebode took the operatives of the Corps through the basic tenet of statement writing.
The Superintendent of Corps (SC) Adeyinka Ishola delivered a lecture on “How to gather credible intelligence information” while Barrister Alex Ojo, the Head of Legal Unit, facilitated the legal interactive session with the personnel.
The event also featured award presentations to ten (10) outstanding intelligence personnel in the proceeding year as well as Musical band display.
Speaking on behalf of the award recipients, Assistant Superintendent of Corps II (ASC II) Salmon Lukman lauded the Head of Department (HOD), who deemed it fit to recognize hard-work and dedication of Personnel to duty and assured of more dedication to duty on going forward.
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