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Foundation trains 12,000 policemen on human rights

By Odita Sunday
19 October 2015   |   11:20 pm
THE Crime Victims Foundation of Nigeria (CRIVIFON) has trained 12,000 policemen on the need to uphold human rights and maintain international standards in policing.
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THE Crime Victims Foundation of Nigeria (CRIVIFON) has trained 12,000 policemen on the need to uphold human rights and maintain international standards in policing.

At present, 269 officers and men of the Nigerian Police Force are still being trained at the Police College, Ikeja Lagos.
Executive Director of CRIVIFON, Mrs. Gloria Egbuji at a media briefing disclosed that her organization was preparing to mark its 10years of investment in Police human rights and advocating for crime victims in Nigeria.

According to Egbuji: “As we are about to celebrate 10 years of the police human rights programme in the Lagos State Police Command, it is relevant to say that CRIVIFON had trained about 12,000 officers and men in 23 batches and 269 others are currently undergoing training.”

It is on record that CRIVIFON in 2006 conceptualized the idea of bringing human rights education to the police by creating a human rights desk at the Lagos State Command.
“Prior to that time, there was no human rights desk in the police force.  Our organization, which was founded 20-years-ago, initiated the programme and the police authorities keyed into it and released their officers and men to take part in the training.

It is on record that CRIVIFON in 2006 conceptualized the idea of bringing human rights education to the police by creating a human rights desk at the Lagos State Command

The training lasted three months per a batch at the Police College, Ikeja Lagos.
Egbuji said the training was extended to Zone 2 Police Command Headquarters, Onikan, Airport and Railway Police Commands.
“It is relevant to say that when we initiated the programme at Zone 2 headquarters in 2010, the then Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone Two, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, who later became the Inspector General of Police (IGP) was a beneficiary of the programme.  He was one of those who received training on human rights under CRIVIFON’s platform.  Several senior officers of the police force who were interested in the programme also participated in the training at one time or the other and we have records of such.”

We need to add that due to the relevance of the human rights training to the police and the society at large, we have often received collaborative assistance of volunteers from the Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, office of the Public Defender, National Orgnisation for Police Reforms in Nigeria, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, National Human Rights Commission (Lagos office) and others.  At the end of every training session, trainees have often been graduated in elaborate ceremonies approved and supported by the Inspector General of Police’s office.

She added:” CRIVIFON is already known for the police human rights project in Lagos and efforts are on to make it a nationwide programme for the police in all the 36 states of the federation.

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