Minister: SWAT officers deployed to states
The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, stated on Friday officers of the newly established Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team has been deployed to the state commands.
The police authorities set up the SWAT following the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in October previous year.
The SWAT officers had been consequently trained at the Police Mobile Force Training School, Ila Oragun, Osun State and the PMF Training School in Nasarawa State.
The minister said this whilst he featured on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today.
He stated, The SWAT officers have ended their training and that they had been posted to the state police commands that introduced them for training. They are there with them and they're performing the features of the SWAT.