A former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mike Okiro has advised against the ban of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Heritage Times gathered that Okiro gave the advice recently in Abuja, noting that the squad be rebranded and refocused for effective service delivery.
The IGP, Mohammed Adamu had on 4th October banned the FSARS and other tactical squads of the force from routine patrols.
However, Okiro said, “The police management should go to the drawing board and retrain personnel of the SARS as it will be counter-productive to disband them.
“You cannot throw away the baby with the bathwater if they have deviated from what they were established for they should be retrained and refocused.
“Armed robbers will be happy that there is no more SARS in the country but are Nigerians ready for that,
“Members of the SARS are doing things that are different from their training, “he said.
