The Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has approved the deployment of 25,000 personnel to the state.
The deployment comprises the mobile force, the counter-terrorism units, the anti-bomb squad and the marine police.
Also included are conventional policemen, the armament units, the criminal intelligence and investigations unit, the force intelligence bureau and the sniffer dog section.
In a statement, the Force Public
Relations Officer, Don N. Awunah, said that the police aerial surveillance
helicopters and gunboats, 10 additional armoured personnel carriers and 550
patrol vehicles would also be used.
The equipment would cover all the
polling units, collation centres, and riverine difficult terrains.
A deputy inspector general of
police, who would be assisted by an assistant inspector general of police and
three commissioners of police would lead the operation.
They are expected to coordinate the
security operations, supervise the deployment of personnel and facilitate the
electoral process throughout the state.
Awunah explained that these measures
are to ensure that the election is conducted in accordance with the electoral
law and in an atmosphere of peace and security,
He added that the IGP would convene
a peace accord of all the political parties, candidates, the INEC officials,
election observers and other stakeholders before the polls.
The meeting, which would hold in
Benin City, would focus on the need to adhere to the rules of the election.
The Force PPRO urged the personnel
and other complementing agencies to be professional and civil, but firm in the
discharge of their statutory duties.
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