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Edo: Police train 500 officers on election

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has trained 500 officers and men of the Edo State command on the coverage and handling of the September 21, governorship election in the state.

Speaking during the training, the state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Nemi Edwin-Iwo, said the training would equip the officers on how to handle election matters with a view to have a peaceful and credible election.

Represented by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP, Administration, Adepegba Adetoye, Edwin-Iwo charged them to pay serious attention so that whatever gathered at the training could be passed to others at the stations thereby leading to a peaceful environment during the election.

He said, “No knowledge is wasted, and whatever you gather at the training will be useful to them during the election.”

Also speaking, Chief Johson Ateghie, the consultant of the firm handling the training, GTA Consult, said, “The essence of this training is to ensure that officers to be deployed to supervise the security of the election and other stakeholders play on the same page and ensure that there is no discrimination, intimidation and disorder during the election so that the outcome is acceptable to all players.”

 

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