For a whole week, starting from Thursday, August 23, the security world would focus its attention on Nigeria as the nation’s police force hosts INTERPOL WEEK.
This was disclosed in a release issued, in Abuja, on Wednesday, by Frank Mba, Force Public Relations Officer, also a Deputy Commissioner of Police, who also revealed that the event would attract participants from across the world..
It would be the first time in the force’s history that it would be hosting such a seven star event.
According to Mba, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, accepted to host the event, which holds between August 23 and 29, 2019, as an expression of his “unalloyed commitment to drive global collaboration towards effectively addressing prevailing and emerging crimes such as terrorism, violent extremism, kidnapping, arms smuggling and illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons, cyber crime, cattle rustling, human trafficking, maritime insecurity, herders and farmers’ conflict, among others, in Nigeria, the Sahel region and the (rest of the) African continent.”
The event, tagged: A Safer World, will be held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, from the August 23 to 29, 2019.
The INTERPOL week, Mba further explained, will have in attendance the National Central Bureau (NCB, focal officers from the 194 INTERPOL member countries, security experts from across the globe, as well as other security and safety agencies in Nigeria, including the NDLEA, EFCC, NIS, NCS, NAPTIP and NAFDAC.
The event, Mba continued, aimed at fine-tuning and strengthening the existing working partnerships among security organizations within and outside Nigeria with a view to improving on the security situation in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
“It is the expectation of the IGP that at the end of the week-long colloquium,” Mba said, “the competences and capacities of the participants would have been greatly enhanced towards effectively addressing the challenges of policing in the 21st century.”