Enugu State Commissioner of Police Kanayo Uzuegbu said the command arrested 123 suspects between July and August.
He said criminals now monitor the communications of security officials in the state using walkie-talkies.
The CP said monitoring police communications had aided criminals in avoiding arrest and attacking targets.
Decrying the development, he said his men would stop at nothing to ensure the security of life and property of the state’s residents.
Uzuegbu, who paraded some suspects at the state command headquarters yesterday, told journalists that several incriminating exhibits were recovered during the operations and that many suspects had been arraigned in court and remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Custodial Centres.
He said while 123 suspects were arrested within the period, 19 abducted/kidnapped victims were rescued by his officers and have reunited with their families.
The commissioner said an AK-47, 15 assault rifles, 25 pump action guns, 35 other firearms, 710 live ammunition of different calibres, 187 live cartridges, 17 motor vehicles, 11 tricycles and eight motorcycles were recovered during the operation.
He dispelled the rumoured kidnapping of some persons around the Enugu State College of Health Technology, Oji-River Local Council, last weekend.
He said: “The four persons, three of whom were not students of the school, allegedly kidnapped around the college on August 14, have all been rescued and reunited with their families.
“Meanwhile, be informed that the suspects involved have been arrested and are undergoing interrogation. Also, the peddler of the unwarranted panic news on the incident has been traced. He has been apologising for the mischievous act.
“Similarly, the sinister plans of the IPOB/ESN secessionist renegades to attack police operatives and cause collateral damage at 4-Corner, along the Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway, on August 18, were squarely thwarted by the officers.
“The militants, dressed in security forces uniforms and operating in a snatched Lexus 350 Jeep, suddenly opened fire on the patrol team on approaching the operatives.
“However, the operatives returned fire-for-fire and immobilised the Lexus Jeep, forcing the hoodlums to snatch a Toyota Camry car and escape the scene with varying degrees of gunshot wounds.
“Unfortunately, a Special Constabulary performing traffic control duty on the road paid the supreme price while the team’s patrol vehicle was hit by bullets and engulfed in flames.”
