Nigeria Police is worried over rising cases of suicide among their personnel across the country.

Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Abubakar, Mohammed, who lamented the development in an interactive session with policemen in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, confirmed that statistics showed that more personnel took their lives recently.

Mohammed, a former Director at the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) office in Lyon, France, said to stop the problem, senior police officers had been ordered to have close relationship with their subordinates.

He said the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) asked them to close their ranks with their subordinates to know their problems and stop them from taking their lives.

He also spoke on the principle of confidentiality and warned against divulging sources of operational information to build confidence between the force and the public.

Mohammed appealed to his men not to trample on the human rights of suspects including some rights reserved for the accused persons.