Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to completing the National Data Fusion Centre (NDFC) to enable security agencies to interface and share information to curb the activities of criminals in the country.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Police Affairs, Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, stated this during a meeting with the Head, Interpol/National Central Bureau, Stanley Udeh, an Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja.
He also disclosed that 18 interrelated projects are currently going on at the centre.
According to him, once the centre is completed, it will enhance the capacity of security agencies to solve numerous crimes and establish a pool of criminal data, and effective interagency collaboration.
He was quoted as saying so in a statement issued at the weekend by the Deputy Director of Press in the ministry, Bolaji Kazeem.
According to Sani-Gwarzo, the Minister of Police Affairs, Ibrahim Gaidam, and the Minister of State, Hajia Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, are championing quick completion of the projects and have directed that any gaps identified should be corrected to ensure effective implementation of the ministry’s key result area of the technological transformation.
He said: “With what we are doing now, I am optimistic that the Nigeria Police Force will function effectively and efficiently to deliver quality service to Nigerians.
“We do not need to wait for the United Nations to provide us data on criminal activities in our domain. We need to do more to profile and document criminals in the country and the ministry is ready to support the Nigeria Police Force to have the capacity to do that.”
Earlier, Udeh, pointed out that the National Criminal Data Centre and National Crime and Incident Database Centre was progressing under the supervision of the ministry and stressed the need to have a functional centralised Criminal Data Centre to harmonise pockets of data among sister agencies.
