The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, has cautioned against ethnic or religious profiling, noting that criminality has no ethnicity and terrorism has no religion.
Disu spoke while delivering the opening address at the North-West Security Summit in Gusau, Zamfara State on Wednesday, where he called for an intelligence-led, community-supported, and coordinated regional response to insecurity.
He urged stakeholders to focus on identifying, isolating, and bringing criminal networks, their sponsors, arms suppliers, informants, and facilitators to justice, irrespective of background or affiliation.
The IGP stressed that no security agency, government, or institution can secure the North-West alone, calling for stronger intelligence sharing, inter-state cooperation, coordinated operations, border security, community engagement, and effective early-warning mechanisms.
He underscored the role of traditional institutions and local communities in providing credible intelligence and supporting crime prevention.
The IGP reaffirmed the Nigeria Police Force’s commitment to intelligence-led policing, technology-driven operations, rapid response, inter-agency collaboration, and community partnership.