He made this declaration while appearing on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily to discuss the progress made on the Police reforms embarked on by the Police authorities.
He said: "We have made significant and massive progress in this regard. Not only has the Police College Ikeja been turned around to a modern Police Academy, as was witnessed when the Vice President came to officially throw it open, we have also seen massive infrastructural improvement in other Police training institutions."
Emphasis was laid on Police Intelligence Training as Mba stated that this was the area in which the current reforms have done excellently well. "As I speak to you, the Police Intelligence School has started operation despite the fact that the permanent site is still undergoing construction…and between February and now we've been able to train about 1,500 intelligence operatives…and we are doing this training in collaboration with our partners from FBI and other secret Police organisations across the world.
"27 of our Police operatives are leaving the shores of this country today (Tuesday, December 3); they are going to Israel where they will also be undergoing a lot of trainings in the area of Intelligence Gathering."
He added that the Police was not only training its men as operatives but also as trainers, so that they can come back and train their colleagues. He lauded the leadership of the Police for carefully putting competent people in charge of different areas of the reforms, claiming that this has contributed to the successes so far.
Speaking about the image of the Police, Mr Mba stressed that the negative image that the Police had was a reflection of the image that Nigeria carries as a nation. "We've got a general problem, while we try to address our own problem, we must also try to collectively address the general injustice and perception that are also trying to pull us down."
With the Police Cooperative Society doing excellently well and the newly established Police Mortgage Bank which will soon start giving out loans for Policemen to develop home of their own, beyond the current system in which the Police is building and subsidizing for the men. The Police is also making its own efforts within the resources under its control to improve the welfare of its operatives.
"The Police have managed to run businesses very well, we have the Police Micro-Finance Bank which today is the only one in Nigeria quoted in the Stock Exchange, the largest, and the most profitable."
He called on Nigerians to be part of a 'no holds barred' forum with the Inspector-General of Police on December 7 in Asaba, Delta State, where the IGP would be expected to present his score card to Nigerians. The event, which will be streamed live on the internet, will also throw open, telephone lines to afford Nigerian citizens the opportunity to chat with the Police authorities.
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