Ahmed Audi, commandant general (CG) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has urged security agencies to hand over vandals arrested during operations to the corps.

During a quarterly meeting with senior officers of the corps on Friday at the NSCDC headquarters in Abuja, the CG said the NSCDC is the lead agency in the protection of critical national assets and infrastructure (CNAI) in the country.

He said it is expected that vandals arrested by other security agencies would be handed over for further investigation and possible prosecution.

Mr Audi said the corps had been handing suspects to relevant security agencies to improve synergy and cooperation.

He charged corps personnel to provide actionable intelligence reports that could be shared amongst sister agencies to foster national security.

“No security agency has a monopoly of strategies. We must all work together closely.

“You must work on your surveillance report in order to have commensurate tactics that will match the operations of criminals; hence the importance of counter operations to face them head-on,” he said.

He charged officers to familiarise themselves with the act, guiding the corps operations and giving directions to personnel in terms of mandate implementation.

“You must know your act which states that you can arrest, detain, investigate and prosecute.

“One of the subsections says you can arrest without a warrant, but it is safer to obtain a warrant before arrest in order to defend yourself very well,” Mr Audi said.

(NAN)