The Nigerian government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States for the training of commanders of the Police Special Intervention Squad (SIS) in a bid to tackle banditry and other forms of criminality in the country.
At the MoU signing ceremony
held at the Peacekeeping Hall, Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday, the Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, who also inaugurated the training programme in partnership with the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, said the SIS was an initiative of the IG that was created to combat violent crimes across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
He however, regretted that since its creation, the squad had only been established in two territories, Plateau State and the FCT, following the rise in banditry and kidnapping in both places.
