IG Disbands SWAT, RRS, and Specialist Squads in Nationwide Police Overhaul

In a bold move to overhaul the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), IGP Tunji Disu has ordered the immediate disbandment of all special police squads and tactical units nationwide.

This nationwide restructuring aims to streamline police operations and improve institutional accountability.

Under this new directive, the following units have been scrapped:
*Rapid Response Squad (RRS)
*Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)
*Anti-Robbery, Anti-Kidnapping, and Anti-Cultism squads
*Scorpion and Tiger Squads
*Tactical Intelligence Response Squad (TIRS)
*Gender and Monitoring Units

Personnel from these units will be redeployed to conventional policing structures, including patrol and guard duties, Divisional Crime Branch (DCB), Juvenile and Women Centre (JWC), and general beat assignments.

This move is seen as an effort to address public concerns over human rights abuses, extortion and extrajudicial operations by some tactical units.

Persecondnews recalls that on assumption of duties, the IGP had emphasised professionalism, accountability and community partnership as core pillars of the reform.