The Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has said that the police would involve trained sniffer dogs in checking crime and criminality in the country, noting that the animals would soon be deployed in rural areas and
flash points of crisis.
The IGP said he visited the president to «share with him our deployment strategies on ground, our deployment to some
of these
flash points all over the country, especially Benue which is the current one, deployment to Kaduna State which started some few weeks back and deployment to the Ile - Ife
crisis where recently, we've a lot
of police officers, both special squads and investigation team, on ground to conduct investigation on the matter.»