Nigeria Police Force has acquired equipment that would assist in solving complex cases like kidnapping, bank robbery, identity theft and others.

The equipment include, among others, forensic laboratory, digital resource centre, modern interrogation room, surveillance tracking device and, aerial surveillance systems.

Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, who spoke in Abuja while commissioning the equipment, noted that they had the capacity to collect, store, merge and display the identity of targeted criminal elements, even at the crime scene.

Arase explained that the facility will complement the existing forensic laboratory in Lagos, saying the system could also convert existing manual record of arrested suspects into digital and searchable format.

He said the procurement of the facility was in line with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that all data-capturing government agencies should harmonise their data before the end of 2016.

Deputy Innspector-General of Police in charge of the FCIID, Christopher Katso, explained that the facility includes personal body camera systems for policemen on operations, which could transmit live feeds to phones and the control room.

Katso noted that the facility would improve the surveillance capabilities of the police and assist in tracking kidnappers, armed robbers and other criminal elements.