By Dedeigbo Ayodeji
President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, approved the establishment of five additional Police Zonal Commands, in a re-organisation exercise, raising the number to 17 zones.
The five newly created commands are, Ondo/Ekiti command with headquarters at Akure; Enugu/Anambra/Ebonyi with headquarters in Ukpodunukofia in Akwa- Ibom state.
Others are Balyelsa/Rivers command with headquarters in Yenogoa; Katsina, Kaduna with headquarters in Katsina, Yobe and Borno command with headquarters in Maiduguri.
Blackboxnigeria reliably reports that, the force Zonal structure commences from zone 1 down to zone 17.
The development coincides a change in the status of the commandants of the four existing police colleges who have been promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIG.
Untill now the police colleges commandants were Commissioners of Police.
A source disclosed to that the re-organisation of the force is not only in line with the principle of community policing, but also to combat crime and criminality nationwide.
Similarly, the Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID, has been decentralised with the Force Intelligence Bureau, FIB, now separated from FCID.
FIB will now be headed by a Deputy Inspector-General of Police DIG.
