Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has said President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly are exploring alternative source of funding for the Nigerian Police Force.

Idris made this known at the 9th General Assembly of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN) with the theme “ Community Policing as a Catalyst to Crime Prevention-The Role of Traditional Rulers” in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state.

Idris reeling his achievement said that kidnappings in the South-South, South East and South West have also been minimised and that the President Buhari has mandated the Police to adopt strategies effective enough to end the recurring Herders/Farmers clashes in Nigeria.

In the area of elections, electioneering and the violence usually associated with it, he said the Police has done well since he assumed office, saying ‘we have recorded less violence and killings in the gubernatorial elections and supplementary elections conducted in Edo, Ondo, Osun, Kano, Rivers and Anambra States’ On FSARS he said ‘let me state that it will not be in the interest of the public to abrogate the FSARS due to their high effectiveness in the fight against Armed Robbery and other heinous crimes in the Country.

They may have been misconducts among some of the Officers but that will not be enough to dismantle the Unit at the detriment of public interest.’