NSCDC ABANDONS ITS RAPID RESPONSE FEMALE SQUAD IN FAVOR OF THE SPECIAL RESPONSE SQUAD FOR SAFE SCHOOLS.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has merged its Rapid Response Female Squad with the Special Response Squad for Safe Schools as part of ongoing efforts to solve school security issues.

Yesterday in Abuja, at the agency’s first quarterly security meeting with its commanders and commandants from all around the country to examine its activities, Commandant General of the Corps, Dr. Ahmed Audi, made the change public.

“To ensure proper protection of schools across the Country, the Corps has already established an Armed Unit known as the Safe School Special Response Squad (SSSRS), in fulfillment of its mandate,” he stated.

“The old Rapid Response Squad and the Female Squad have been merged into this Squad to further improve the operations of this new Squad.

As stated in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), “The new Squad will engage in routine patrol and response to distress calls from schools and the host communities.”

The officers were given the responsibility of being aware of their individual obligations in the face of new security dangers brought on by, among other things, banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, and conflicts between farmers and herders.

Let me further remind you of our responsibility for containing these criminals’ activities and the necessity of giving our operations more bite in order to successfully combat the new dimension of organized crime for a safe and secure Nigeria.

In order to put out the flame of unrest and create an environment that is unsafe and unconducive for criminal elements and those with criminal tendencies, he charged the directing officers, “I want to charge you to double your efforts and remain resolute to our avowed commitment.”