IGP BABA who made this disclosure in Abuja at a meeting with Strategic Police Managers and Official Inauguration of Police Specialised Service Automation Project (POSSAP), also said the deployment was in addition to steps being taken to upscale patrol operations along the highway.
He said that the Nigeria Police was collaborating effectively with the Military, Department of State Services, the Ministry of Transport and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, to ensure safety
The police boss said that the Force had reinvigorated the ‘Operation Safer Highway’ with the injection of more patrol vehicles and personnel across the country.
The IGP further revealed that the Police had strengthened its ‘Operation Restore Peace’, a Special Anti-Secessionist Operation in the South East, with the deployment of more special operational units and assets of the Force.
He also announced the approval of the conduct of an Election Security Management Training for Police Officers ahead of the general elections, which would hold across the six geopolitical zones of the country from 14th of August in Abuja.
