IG: 160,000 policemen receiving training against 2015 elections

About 160,000 policemen are being trained to ensure hitch-free gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun states this year and the subsequent 2015 general elections, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has said.

According to Abubakar,  the police officers are receiving specialised training on electoral laws, election security, crowd control, anti-riot operations, covert intelligence operations and general principles of democratic policing.

He said this when the United States Ambassador, Mr. James Entwistle, paid him a courtesy visit at the Force headquarters Abuja, on Tuesday.