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The SCIID carries out inquiries into diverse range of criminal offences in Nigeria. The police unit is authorized and empowered to carryout investigations, make arrest and prosecute criminals to the full extent of the Law of Nigeria. [4] [5] The unit serves to investigate and prosecute complex crimes in the country.
The Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) [22] is the highest criminal investigation arm of the Nigeria Police NPF. The department is headed by a Deputy Inspector-General (DIG). Its primary functions include the investigation and prosecution of severe and complex criminal cases within and outside the Country. The department also ...
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was founded in late 1992 by former police commissioner Simeon Danladi Midenda.The inciting events that spurred SARS formation were the killing of Colonel Ezra Dindam Rimdan (Nigerian Army) by police officers at a checkpoint in Lagos in September 1992, their arrest, [6] a strike by police officers in response, and a subsequent crime wave.
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was a unit of the Nigeria Police Force under the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID). It was founded in late 1992 as one of the 14 units in the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, which was established to detain, investigate, and prosecute people involved in crimes like armed robbery, kidnapping, and other ...
[2] [3] Until his appointment as the inspector general, he was a deputy inspector-general of police and supervising DIG for the South-West geo-political zone, to head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), Force Headquarters, Abuja since 6 April 2023.
The military and the Nigerian state, 1966–1993: a study of the strategies of political power control. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-568-3. Solomon Akhere Benjamin (1999). The 1996 state and local government reorganizations in Nigeria. Ibadan: Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research. ISBN 978-181-238-9.
A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a state. [1] They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other countries' foreign intelligence efforts.
The Rivers State Police Command is the state branch of the Nigeria Police Force in Rivers State. It is responsible for maintaining public order and safety, enforcing the law, and preventing crime. The Rivers State police has 9 area commands with 52 divisional police headquarters, 25 police stations and 23 police outposts.