Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, yesterday said 21,084 policemen would be redeployed to Anambra for the Nov. 28 governorship election.
Idris made the disclosure at the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue session in Abuja.
He said 17,320 policemen would be deployed to the 4,330 polling units across the state, while 280 of them would be deployed to the collation centres.
The IGP said 2,484 would be deployed to 414 major streets in the state throughout the election period, adding that 300 vehicles would be added to the 80 operational vehicles in Anambra Police command.
Additional police mobile force units, according to him, had also been deployed to Anambra and other states in the South-East and South-South for the governorship election.
He explained that the deployment was to ensure that criminal elements were removed from the states before the election.
The police boss said that extra security arrangements were being made for some flash and vulnerable points in the state like Otuocha, Ihiala, Onitsha North and Onitsha South local government areas, Achala in Awka North, Ekwulobia in Orumba and Ozubulu in Ekwusigo local government areas.
He said that the deployment would build and increase the confidence of the people of the state in the police and other security agencies to protect them.
“I want to assure you that all necessary manpower and logistics to secure the electorate, electoral officials, monitors, observers and materials have been provided for the command.
Idris said the police commissioner in Anambra had been instructed to carry along the state Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, in the deployment and implementation of security arrangements for the poll.
He said the command had also been directed to work with the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), the Eminent Persons Forum and local associations in the state to ensure peace and order.
