AIG Owohunwa Highlights Capacity Building, Professionalism for Effective Investigation, Criminal justice

AIG Owohunwa Highlights Capacity Building, Professionalism for Effective Investigation, Criminal justice

By THECONSCIENCEng 

The Assistant Inspector General in charge of Force Criminal Investigation Department FCID, Alagbon Annex, AIG Idowu Owohunwa, has restated the strategic importance of training and consistent capacity building for enhanced policing operations and effective criminal justice system in the country.

Owohunwa noted that, “for an Agency that is as critical to internal security as the Nigeria Police, the prioritisation of training and human capacity development as a strategic pathway to entrenching professionalism, engendering cthical regeneration, and enhancing public
trust remain a necessity rather than an option.”

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He added that assertion is even more relevant in relation to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, which is statutorily and historically, the lead criminal investigative Unit in the country that is populated by detectives whose conducts have an amplifying effect on criminal justice delivery and public perception of the
Police.

He maintained that the optimal attainment of the goals of an organisation is precedent on the quality of the human capacity of such an organisation, adding that the on-going training programme under the coordination of DIG FCID is a critical step towards complying with the
reform charge to the Department by the Inspector General of Police.

The AIG made the remarks while speaking at the opening ceremony of the criminal investigation training for police detectives in Lagos on Thursday.

The 3-day event which continues till Saturday was also graced by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, PhD, Dr. Solomon Arase (IGP, Rtd), Chairman Police Service Commission; Dr Benjamin Aluko, Institute of Peace Studies, University of Ibadan; DIG Abiodun Alabi and DCP Ayodeji Babalola of FCID as well as the PPRO FCID Lagos Annex, ASP Mayegun Aminat amongst others.

While delivering the keynote address, Dr Aluko said the comprehensive training will cover critical areas such as investigation, technical, intelligence and forensic aid to criminal investigation, ethical requirements in criminal investigation, and the extant criminal laws and procedures with emphasis on aligning our investigative activities to the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.

Other areas include global best practices in criminal investigation with emphasis on complex cases like fraud, Domestic and
Sexual crimes, Cybercrime, crimes associated with land disputes and forensic pathology in aid of homicide investigation.

In his address, IGP Egbetokun charged detectives and officers to maximise the opportunity offered by the training in order to upscale their performance and duties.

The training themed “Advancing Professionalism in Criminal Investigation for Enhanced Criminal Justice Delivery in Nigeria” was designed to further the reform agenda of the IGP in restoring police investigative excellence by exposing detectives of the department to specialised raining and re-orientation programme that are directed at bridging their investigative knowledge gap and aligning their professional activities to the realities of crime dynamics
in Nigeria.