Minister of Police Affairs, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam, has charged the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) to equip the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) with local and foreign professional training to enable them effectively tackle criminality in the country.
  
He gave the charge, yesterday, at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja when the Executive Secretary of NPTF was briefing him and the Minister of State on the activities of the fund.
  
Reacting to funding issues on the professional training for police personnel outside the country, he urged NPTF to ensure that the process of training officers was strictly managed within the available funds, rather than jettisoning necessary training for police personnel.
  
He said: “Instead of waiting to send 20 personnel abroad, you can send 10 that can be accommodated within available funds, rather than jettisoning crucial professional training abroad that will impact their output. 
  
“The Executive Secretary and his team should come up with a strategic plan on sending personnel on training outside the country, while continuing to patronise local training available in the country. We need to send some of our personnel outside Nigeria to get sophisticated training that would enable them to tackle crimes in the country.”

The Minister of State, Imaan Sulaima-Ibrahim, stated that in perfecting statecraft, international norms and best practices would be deployed in training and retraining, operations standardised, infrastructure updated, with work tools to strengthen the professionalism of security personnel.