The Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have concluded arrangements to deploy 360 personnel for the February general elections.
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, said about 300, 000 of his officers had been trained in partnership with the Independent National Electoral Commission and development partners.
The Commandant-General, NSCDC, Dr. Ade Abolurin, revealed that 60, 000 of his officers would also provide security during the elections while the agency had also concluded plans to import 25 sniffer dogs from the US for the polls.
The IGP and Abolurin, who was represented by the Deputy Commandant-General (Operations), Mr. Evan Ewurum, spoke on Friday in Abuja during the closing ceremony of a two-day conference on the role of the State and Non-State actors in mitigating violence in elections with the theme, ‘Nigeria 2015 elections and Beyond’.
The event was organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development in collaboration with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
According to Abolurin, the NSCDC has completed plans to import 25 sniffer dogs from the United States to detect likely explosives during the elections.
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