Director General of the Institute for Police and Security Policy Research, Dr Charles Omole, has stressed the need for increased funding for police to enhance their operational capacity and response amid rising insecurity.

Omole made this call during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday

“I have said before, it’s no longer secret. Last year, in 2025, from January to December, the Police did not receive one kobo of capital budget other than salaries; nothing was paid to them.

“How do you expect them to be able to do these things we are asking them to do?” he said on the show.

According to him, the police are not adequately supported to carry out their duties.

He cited how former Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, introduced the special intervention squad when he became the Inspector General of Police.

“The whole idea of the squad is to be a team in each geopolitical zone, their job is just to be ready to intervene in issues within 1hour, not spending that hour calling different police divisions asking for men, but that idea did not lift because of funding, it was never funded, and that’s the problem,” Omole said

The analyst further addressed the need for the three key things when it comes to security management.

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He noted that the country does not have the intelligence, rapid response, and a highly warning system to tackle insecurity in the country.

“We don’t have any one of the three.

“As of now, Nigerian intelligence should have infiltrated all of these bad groups; they are always recruiting, they can infiltrate us, the army, the police, but we can’t infiltrate theirs”.

His comments followed public outcry due to recent spates of terrorist attacks in the country, which have led to a rise in insecurity.