FROM JOHN-ABBA OGBODO (ABUJA)

Ehindero, who gave the order at a meeting with senior police officers in Abuja, expressed displeasure over the spate of armed robbery attacks in recent times, especially the killing of seven policemen in Port Harcourt, last week.

The police boss announced that with effect from next week, all the personnel of the PMF would commence compulsory guerrilla training with operational emphasis on offensive defence technique.

The Force spokesman, Haz Iwendi, a deputy commissioner of police, briefed journalists on the outcome of the meeting yesterday in Abuja. He said the IG also told the officers that a purge would soon be carried out in the PMF with a view to flushing out bad eggs among them.

Similarly, the police boss said the Criminal

Intelligence Bureau CIB had been directed to spread its dragnet all over the country, more than it had ever done, so as to be ahead of criminals.

Still speaking on the fresh logistics worked out to combat crime, Ehindero disclosed that an arrangement was being made out for each state and the Federal Capital Territory to purchase two Armoured Personnel Carriers APCS for the police, as a way of assisting to bring down the crime wave in the country.