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Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro has said most of the vehicles stolen in Africa were being recycled within the continent.
Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro has said most of the vehicles stolen in Africa were being recycled within the continent.
Okiro said this when he declared open, a four-day training for West African Police Officers on techniques for investigating and identifying stolen vehicles. He said that international trafficking in stolen vehicles in the continent had escalated in the last decade.
Okiro said Nigeria, like other African countries, had its fair share of car theft, with some recoveries recorded. Okiro said the training became necessary following rampant cases of trans-border car theft. 'This training programme is very timely at this point of our national history because law, order, peace and security are matters of state responsibility," he said.
Okiro said as the principal law enforcement agency, the Nigeria Police has to rise to the occasion and stem the tide of crime by reducing the incidence of car theft within African borders.
He described trans-border crimes as threat to democracy, stressing that they undermine security and stability of nations. The Commissioner of Police in charge of International Police (INTERPOL), Lawretta Koyi, said that 40 participants were expected to attend the training.
Koyi said the participants were drawn from Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and other sub-regional bureaus of the INTERPOL.