The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has joined his counterparts across the globe at the 3rd United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS) in the United States of America.
The event 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.
Revealing this in a press statement, Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, said “The UNCOPS is an illustration of inclusive multilateralism at work.”
Adejobi disclosed that the IGP took the stage on Thursday, September 1, 2022, where he spoke to the theme: Fostering Sustainable Peace and Development through United Nations Policing.
In it, Adejobi continued, IGP Alkali Baba admonished the United Nations to make policies that will promote sustainable peace and development amongst its member nations, and continuously render necessary assistance towards improved policing system across the globe.
In addition, Baba assured his audience of the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to extend its manpower for effective peace operations where necessary.
The IGP seized the opportunity to meet with and engage the Under-Secretary-General, Department of Peace Operations, United Nations Headquarters, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, where they deliberated on many policing ideas affecting the Nigeria Police Force and global security in general. The IGP also met with the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Mrs. Amina J. Mohammad on on Thursday.
Alkali Baba will round up his participation at the summit on Friday when he would be visiting Washington DC to meet with the Director of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Agency, a United States agency that has been very supportive in the training and capacity building programmes of the NPF.
The Inspector-General of Police had 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, and this forms the crux and fulcrum of his attendance at the summit.
