December 24, 2024
IGP Egbetokun Inaugurates SOP on Safe Schools Protection Initiative
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IGP Egbetokun Inaugurates SOP on Safe Schools Protection Initiative

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has launched a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual for the Schools Protection Squad (SPS).

The manual was launched at a workshop on the Safe Schools Initiative for Strategic Police Managers in Abuja yesterday.

This follows the recent establishment of the SPS, a high-profile special unit for the protection of schools and educational institutions across the country.

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The manual is a comprehensive document that provides clear guidelines for the smooth operationalisation of the squad and includes strategies such as the generation of information and development of intelligence; community policing partnerships; police-public cooperation and inter-agency collaboration.

Other strategies are security and administration of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs); deployment of logistics assets; humanitarian service; as well as training for school managers/teachers and members of the host communities for emergency situations.

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