The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tunji Disu, has commended the Governor Peter Mbah administration for setting up what he described as a state-of-the-art Command and Control Centre for effective surveillance of the state.
Disu, who expressed surprise at the sophistication of the security infrastructure, wished that every other state could come over to understudy the Command and Control Centre and set up one to boost the security of life and property in every part of the country.
The IGP spoke during a tour of the facility on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Centre for DNA Forensics and Criminal Investigation, Enugu.
The Centre for DNA is a strategic partnership between the Mbah administration and the Godfrey Okoye University, aimed at promoting scientific, evidence-based justice and war against criminality.
\u201cI must confess that I am surprised we have this kind of facility here in this state, because you know I worked for Lagos. I know we had something like this in Lagos, but the advancement of this one amazed me.
\u201cThis is a control room that has a lot of facilities with the ability to see almost everywhere in this state. There is no place that is left ungoverned from the control room. We can see the forest. We can zoom in \u2013 I think over 40 per cent \u2013 to be able to see far away. We can zoom in close to 30 kilometres away. That is great security.
\u201cI wish every state in Nigeria would come here and emulate what is happening. I have seen AI cameras. I have seen officers dedicated to certain areas of the state watching, seeing what is happening.
\u201cI have also seen records of the successes through this control room. One more time, I wish all the states in Nigeria would come around, see what is happening here and emulate it,\u201d Disu said.
He equally commended the state\u2019s Distress Response Squad initiative, a special police unit with over 150 security vehicles installed with AI-enabled cameras and also linked to the Command and Control Centre.
\u201cI moved around. I saw the state\u2019s DRS, and then we put them to the test. They did not know I was listening to them. We put them to the test. We asked them to move to a certain part of the town, and within two, three, or four minutes, they were there. It shows their efficiency,\u201d Disu said.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tunji Disu, has commended the Governor Peter Mbah administration for setting up what he described as a state-of-the-art Command and Control Centre for effective surveillance of the state. Disu, who expressed surprise at the sophistication of the security infrastructure, wished that every other state could come over to understudy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n