Police Brutality: Officers Will No Longer Have Access To Guns

Police Brutality: Officers Will No Longer Have Access To Guns

Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has stated that police will soon start using tasers and teargas instead of guns. This is in a bid to curb the occurrence of extra-judicial killings embarked upon by police officers.

Adamu represented by his deputy stated in Osogbo that

As a way to ending the distrust between Nigerians and the police, especially when it comes to the misuse of firearms and police excesses, they have decided to acquire less-lethal weaponry such as taser or stun guns.

“Toward this end, we are in the process of migrating from total dependence on lethal weaponry as the first line of police operations toward acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry such as taser or stun guns, he said.

“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,’’ he said.