Percy Onyeka
Olatunji Disu, the commissioner of police for Rivers State, has promised the populace and locals that the state will no longer experience any unintentional discharge events.
In the course of the Saturday competition in Musketry and Arms Handling at the Counter Terrorism Unit Training School in Nonwa, Tai Local Government Area, the state, Disu acknowledged this.
According to him, the training complied with Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun’s goal of retraining and training officers for effective service delivery.
Disu, who noted that the three weeks of training had operatives trained in arms handling and mastery, assured that by such training, residents should have trust in the police because the recurring incidents will be a thing of the past.
He stated, “We are here to witness the training that has been going on for the past three weeks.
“The officers have been here to do what they have been doing annually to brush our professionalism, which is arms training and arms handling.
“Today we have concluded the training exercise. Arms handling is one of the most important aspects of policing because it has to do with life and death.
“During this training, we have taught them safety and control; and how they should handle their firearms.
“Our firearms are important tools of our trade, so we will ensure that we train our officers again and again.”
According to Disu, the operatives were trained in arms handling and control and were taught the most important law of firearms handling, which is in the fourth order 237, which stipulates when the police officer can deploy the firearms.
He emphasised the need to build trust between members of the public to promote security in the state.
“Most importantly we need to build trust between us and the community, those we are protecting know that we are proficient with the firearms that we are carrying.
“We do not want people running away from us because we are carrying firearms. We want them to know that they have been trained to handle their firearms.
“We also want to reduce that recurring language of accidental discharges. I can assure you that with the level of training the officers have undergone for the past three weeks, that will be a thing of the past,” he added.
Meanwhile, Disu, while reacting to the physical state of the training school, expressed optimism that the Inspector General of Police will revamp all Police training schools in the country.
“The IGP has said again and again, that he has intention repairing all police training institutes, and I have had a visitation from the IGP who had been here to see what we have here and has assured us that in the nearest future, this place will be put to better use.”
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