Efforts are being made to equip the International Police,INTERPOL, a unit of the Nigeria Police with what it takes for a better service delivery.

Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, said this at the INTERPOL Cybercrime training for Practitioner Investigators from African countries which include; South Sudan, Zambia, Cameroun, Guinea Bissau and Nigeria.

Idris said the training was critical to boosting capacities in the fields of INTERPOL crime enquiries, identity fraud, online tracking of suspects, electronic crime scene investigation, among others.

He said because of the international nature of most cybercrime offences, the police had set up and deployed a dedicated high-tech and cybercrime unit in the INTERPOL in Nigeria.

In the future, he said the experienced members of the unit would be deployed in the state police commands, where the cybercrime offences were prevalent, saying the police had established and maintained a high-tech criminal information system to enable the police to cooperate with other internal law enforcement agencies.

The Police Boss spoke through Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Hyacinth Dagala, urged the participants to avail themselves of the opportunities that the training presented.

Earlier, the Head of INTERPOL, National Central Bureau, CP Olusshola Subair, said investigating offences in the cyberspace had assumed a major policing requirement in Nigeria and Africa in general.

He assured that the capacities of the Nigeria Police would soon assume more effective and efficient level.

In a remark, Acting Head of Training unit, Digital Investigating Support-Cybercrime Directorate, Singapore, Wei Tee, urged the trainees to come up with good strategies to combat cyber-crime, saying no country could fight cybercrime, which was a transnational crime, without the collaboration of other countries.

In attendance, were participants from South Sudan, Zambia, Cameroun, Guinea Bissau and Nigeria.