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Police Officers Must Be IT Savvy For PBCMR To Succeed- Security Consultant

A retired military captain, Umar Aliyu on Monday called on the Nigeria Police hierarchy to ensure that the average policeman on the street is Information … Continue reading Police Officers Must Be IT Savvy For PBCMR To Succeed- Security Consultant


A retired military captain, Umar Aliyu on Monday called on the Nigeria Police hierarchy to ensure that the average policeman on the street is Information Technology (IT) savvy to ensure that the newly introduced Police Biometric Central Motor Registry (PBCMR) is successful.

While speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, he commended the security agency for introducing the Police Biometric Central Motor Registry but was quick to add that “it is also fraught with a lot of concerns”.

The security consultant berated the decision to “exclusify central data facility “adding that “exclusivity in the sense that each agency has its own”.

He called for the use of a “big cloud and everyone latches on to it. It becomes seamless “noting that “central means it will not be under the custody of anybody” insisting that all agencies can put into it and can draw from it”.

He accused Nigerian security agencies of being “painfully antagonistic” because they “find it difficult to for one reason or the other to work with one another” blaming them for misconstruing what their job roles are.

He said that the level of sophistication that the police want to take on overnight, may not sit properly on their people’s (officers) sophistication level, wondering if the “police could probably draw a road map and make the ordinary policeman (IT) savvy”.

“From the indicators on ground, I am not confident to say that our police force is IT savvy”  adding that “from the police command upwards, you could see some level of IT presence when you walk in there” he said.

“When you have an IT culture and then you bring a level of sophistication that is IT dependent and you foist it on a system, it works”

He further expressed worry over the propensity of the security agents to keep the personal information of Nigerians in a confidential state.