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The then increase in crime as a result of the police absence birthed the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, with just 15 officers working in the dark without the Army’s knowledge when tracking police radio chatter and normal policing duties didn’t resume until after two weeks of dialogue between the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Police.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu on October 4, banned the personnel of the FSARS and other tactical squads of the force from routine patrols.

A statement by the spokesman of the Police Force Headquarters, Deputy Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, said the operation was necessitated by actionable intelligence linking terror and criminal elements in the super camp to series of terror-related violence, kidnappings, gun-running, cattle rustling and other heinous crimes across the country