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IGP Creates Two Units In SARS

By Editor
07 August 2015   |   9:00 pm
THE Inspector-General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase, has split the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) into two units with a view to checking human rights abuses.

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THE Inspector-General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase, has split the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) into two units with a view to checking human rights abuses.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Investigation, Dan’azumi Doma, made the disclosure yesterday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

NAN reports that SARS is one of the 14 units under the Nigeria Police Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID).

The operations of SARS include arrest, investigation and prosecution of suspected armed robbers, murderers, kidnappers, hired assassins and others involved in violent crimes.

The DIG said that the current police administration was doing everything possible to check the numerous human rights abuses reported to the IG.

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