By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Oyo the State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Michael Akintayo Adaralewa has hinted that training and retraining of all officers and men of the Corps is crucial with the rate of insecurity in the country.
Commandant Adaralewa stated this while speaking at a 2day training for officers and men of the Oyo state NSCDC at the Area A Command of the Corps,Railway quarters, Iyaganku Ibadan.
He stressed that the time has come for every officers and men of the NSCDC to be ready at all time for the challenges facing the nation on security.
” It is very necessary to train and retrain all officers and men of the Corps, especially with the rate of insecurity in the Country”, he said.
Commandant Adaralewa then tasked all officers and men of the Corps who participated in the 2days training to exhibit the knowledge impacted in them through the aspects of training they undergo.
During the two days training, over 350 officers and men of the corps were trained on many areas of Security operations including, Hostile Environment Protection, Executive close protection, VIP protection, Customer care, Executive self Defence training, Crowd control Management, Defensive driving, Security surveillance, Security journey management and Security strategic just to mention few out of the number of courses offered in the training.
The officers are drawn from different departments including Crisis Management Department, Agro Ranger Unit, Counter Terrorism Unit, Anti-Vandal, Disaster Management Unit, the female special squad who are on special training all involved in the training I other to get them prepared for all forms of challenges in the course of the job.
