IGP Arase launches new SPY police uniform (see photos)
– The Nigerian police has unveiled the new supernumerary police uniform by Shell Petroleum Development Company
– The SPY police uniform was launched on Monday in Port Harcourt
– Speaking at the launch, the IG of police said he was happy to see the proper implementation of the new SPY uniform which took a while to be actualised
Solomon Arase, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) was at the launch of a new supernumerary police uniform by Shell Petroleum Development Company.
Solomon Arase unveils the new SPY police uniform
At the launch in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital on Monday, May 2, Arase said the new SPY police uniform was an initiative that has taken a while to come to fulfillment.
The new SPY police uniform
The IGP said: “Ladies and gentlemen, the concept of Supernumerary Police draws from Sec. 18 of the Nigeria Police Act which provides guidelines for their establishment and also grants them the powers, privileges and immunities of police officers, but as limited to area in respect of which they are appointed and in any police area adjacent thereto, but not elsewhere. In essence, therefore, SPY Police are engaged for specific security functions within a restricted jurisdiction or operational space. In addition, Sec. 18 (3) (d) of the Police Act provides that supernumerary police officers are subject to the provisions of the Police Act and ‘in particular, the provision thereof relating to discipline’.
It is in giving effect to these specific and other broad provisions of the Police Act in relation to the establishment, deployment, status, operation, control and discipline of Supernumerary police, that the idea of kitting them with Police Uniforms and accoutrement evolved. Although, in so doing, unique service numbers are issued to them to effectively distinguish them from the general duty police officers and also identify the specific jurisdiction they are attached to.”
SPY police are engaged for security duties by Oil & Gas, security companies, banks and others.
SPY police in their new uniform
According to him, the decision to change the SPY police uniform was well thought out.
He said could see neatness, beauty, smartness, new professional carriage and self-pride in the first set of SPY Police personnel to be dressed in the new uniform.
Arase said the new SPY police uniform was an initiative that has taken a while to come to fruition
“I see in them a renewed pride and dignity and I am motivated that the smartly dressed officers on this parade will represent the face of the new Supernumerary police that will break from the past and march into a future in which they will join the Parent Organisation and the Nigeria Police in advancing the concept of Rule of Law-driven law enforcement architecture in Nigeria,” he added.
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