Nigerian Police to Start Using Taser And Stun Guns For Low-Risk Duties

Mohammed Adamu, acting inspector general of police, says the police are procuring and sending less deadly weaponry amid activities. 

Adamu made this known on Thursday, in Osogbo, Osun state capital, at the introduction of a zonal security partners' discussion, a network policing idea for the police zone XI involving Ondo, Osun and Oyo states. 

NAN reports that the discussion was gone for stirring the general population of the three states toward recognizing and banding together with the police to address exceptional security challenges. 

The IGP, who was spoken to by Taiwo Lakanu, agent examiner general of police, said he had initiated the way toward tending to factors that induce strife and doubt between the residents and the police, especially issues verging on abuse of guns and sundry maltreatment of police powers. 

“Toward this end, we are in the process of migrating from total dependence on lethal weaponry as first line of police operations toward acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry such as taser or stun guns,” said the police IG.
“Under the new policy, personnel on low-risk policing duties like routine patrols, arrest duties, and civil disorder management will be armed with taser guns or stun guns as a strategic approach toward reducing incidents of fatalities associated with misapplication of lethal weapons by the police when faced with low level threats.’’ 

The IGP likewise coordinated that cops the nation over work eight hours every day.