Police Move To Secure Criminal-Prone Abuja-Kaduna Highway, Launch Operation Absolute Sanity

Following incessant cases of kidnapping and robbery on the Abuja – Kaduna expressway, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the deployment of a joint police team comprising Special Police Force, Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Squad, Anti-Kidnapping Units, Intelligence Response Team, Special Tactical Squad, the Force Intelligence Branch, the Police Mobile Force with Headquarters at Rijanah, Kaduna State.

The Joint Police Team are under specific and definite mandate to root out the kidnap for ransom gangs and armed robbery gangs that have being terrorising the Abuja-Kaduna Highway in the recent times.

Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja said the operations is to complement and augment the on-going Joint Police/Military operations on ground before now.

“To achieve success of the operations Absolute sanity, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Department of Operations has been mandated to supervise the operation as overall Commander while the Deputy Commissioner of Police, In-Charge of the Police Mobile Force is the Grand Commander of the Operations.

“The Police personnel will be proactive and work on actionable Intelligence at the disposal of the Force and carry out massive deployment and twenty four (24) hours surveillance and patrol, continuous raids of identified and other suspected hideouts of the kidnappers with a view to arresting them promptly before they attack innocent people. They will also nip in the bud other violence crimes such as armed robbery, car snatching etc on Abuja-Kaduna,” the statement read.

Also, police helicopters will embark on aerial surveillance and guided missions to assist the operation ‘Absolute Sanity’s personnel on the ground in covering difficult terrains.’