The Lagos
State Commissioner of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu, yesterday, disclosed that
policemen under his watch will undergo intensive Emotion Intelligence Training.
The training
is a fall out of the indiscriminate use of rifles and killing of civilians witnessed
in Lagos State not too long ago. There were three major indiscriminate
shootings and killings that occurred just as Muazu was taking over the mantle
of leadership in Lagos command.
The CP
mentioned the forthcoming police training during his breakfast meeting with 'Stakeholders
Accountability Platform’ on Tuesday, held at Ikeja.
The 'Stakeholders
Accountability Platform,' is a coalition of community based, focused Civil Society
Organizations (CSO), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and stakeholders
working on issues of police accountability and service delivery.
The group
had frank discussions around police abuses, need for the various units to be
alive to their duties of treating public complaints and giving feedback. The
need for synergy between police, CSO, communities and media was also
highlighted.
The
breakfast meeting was supported by Nigerian Policing Programme (NNP). Muazu disclosed
that policemen, who shot and killed some civilians, were right now in prison.
He explained that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, had
warned all police formations that such recklessness among police personnel
would no longer be tolerated.
He noted:
“The Emotion Intelligence Training will take off within the next one or two
weeks. We have already contacted the consultants and made other necessary arrangements.
Our policemen can’t continue to behave the way they are behaving. They can’t be
shooting and killing people.”
Chairman
of the 'Stakeholders Accountability Platform,' Okechukwu Nwanguma, who is also
the coordinator, Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN), said: “The Forum
was initiated by CSO and other stakeholders in Lagos State with support from
NNP and was launched in August 2018 by former Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Edgal Imohimi.
“The Forum
was established to provide a platform for engagement with the Lagos State
Police Command and in particular, to understand the functioning of the various
public complaints and discipline mechanism and how CSO and other stakeholders
can engage and strengthen these mechanisms to promote accountability and
respect for human rights and change public perception of the police.”
According
to positivepsychologyprogram.com, Emotion Intelligence Training is a set of practical knowledge and skills that help
individuals to become fluent in understanding the language of emotions, communication skills, long
lasting and strong interpersonal relationships – personal and professional, self-awareness
and self-control.
The site further states: “Emotional
Intelligence is our mind’s ability to perceive, manage, and express emotions
effectively in real life.”
It is the ability to regulate
feelings and use them to guide our actions.
Emotional intelligence has been
argued, can make one to become fluent in the language of emotions, help the
person to sustain relationships, both personally and professionally. Emotional
intelligence can also empower the mind and make someone happy and content.
Teaching emotional intelligence to individuals not
only builds their emotional skills, but it also sustains the education over
several years.
Delphine Nelis, a cognitive psychologist, said that the
group that received the practice not only showed marked improvement in their
emotional abilities, but they also continued to manifest the same even after
six months of the experiment.
Also at
the meeting were heads of Police Public Complaints Bureau (PCB), X- Squad,
Gender Unit, Human Rights Desk, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Anti-Cultism
Unit and Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO).
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