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Affected units reportedly include Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Anti-Cultism, Anti-Kidnapping, Scorpion Squad, Tactical Intelligence Response Squad (TIRS), Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Monitoring Units, Tiger Squad, Gender Units, Anti-Robbery squads, among others.


There is disquiet within the Nigeria Police Force following an order by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tunji Disu directing the immediate dissolution of multiple tactical units operating across commands nationwide.

Affected units reportedly include Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Anti-Cultism, Anti-Kidnapping, Scorpion Squad, Tactical Intelligence Response Squad (TIRS), Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Monitoring Units, Tiger Squad, Gender Units, Anti-Robbery squads, among others.


The directive, communicated through an internal wireless message obtained by SaharaReporters, was issued after a recent virtual meeting between senior police officers and the IGP.

According to the message, all existing tactical teams at the command, area command, and divisional levels, regardless of their operational names, have been ordered dissolved with immediate effect.

“Following the IGP’s directives at the just concluded Zoom meeting with Commissioners of Police and above, all existing tactical teams at commands are being reformed into two, with operational names to be provided by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations,” the message read in part.


The signal further specified that units such as “Lion, Tiger, Scorpion squads and others by whatever names called” are no longer to operate in their current form.

Under the new arrangement, only area commands and divisional surveillance units are permitted to function temporarily, pending further directives.

Personnel from the disbanded units are to be redeployed into conventional policing structures, including patrol and guard duties, the Divisional Crime Branch (DCB), Juvenile and Women Centre (JWC), and general beat assignments.

“The dissolved teams are to be subsumed into patrol and guard, DCB, JWC and beat with immediate effect,” the directive added.

The police hierarchy also indicated that further details regarding the restructuring would be unveiled during the end-of-month Officers’ Conference scheduled for March 26, 2026.

While the rationale behind the sweeping reform was not explicitly stated, the move comes amid longstanding public concerns over the conduct of certain tactical units, many of which have been accused of human rights abuses, extortion, and extrajudicial operations.

This is coming a few days after the IGP ordered a special resit promotion examination and interactive session for senior officers who were reportedly overlooked in previous cycles.

A confidential police wireless message obtained by SaharaReporters, dated March 16, 2026, shows that the Police Service Commission (PSC) has rescheduled the exercise for Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs), Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs), Chief Superintendents of Police (CSPs), and Superintendents of Police (SPs) who were “not successful” in the December 2025 and March 2026 promotion cycles.

Insiders had told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that the affected officers were allegedly sidelined by a sophisticated bribery scheme orchestrated during the tenure of former IGP Kayode Egbetokun.

According to sources, Egbetokun’s leadership, with the alleged complicity of senior PSC officials, systematically blocked deserving officers from promotions while advancing junior officers who paid large bribes, effectively stalling the careers of senior personnel.

The current IGP is reportedly moving to "reconsider and rectify" these injustices by providing a transparent window for the sidelined officers to earn their next ranks.

The signal, issued by Nigeria Police Force Secretary, directs all commands to release the affected officers to attend the interview as scheduled. To ensure the integrity of the process, the officers are "strongly advised to refresh their memories" in core areas including professional studies, law, and local acts.

The IGP has also ordered a high-security detail for the exercise.

The AIGPOL MOPOL is required to provide "twelve (12) neatly turned-out armed men for escort duty," while the transport wing (TRANSFOR) is to provide "two (2) serviceable Hilux vans" to be placed on standby at the FHQ Parade Ground by 06:00 HRS.



https://saharareporters.com/2026/03/22/breaking-inspector-general-disu-disbands-all-police-units-squads-nationwide-orders

I hope this man knows what he's doing
Given Nigeria's dire security situation, I think we need more tactical and special units with adequate armaments than normal police duties
The Police need to expand not streamline
As for the part of promotion, it reeks more of vendetta either from Sowore or the new IG but if true, it sites the folly of keeping a man in office after his tenure is over. What eventually happens is that the occupant goes rogue and start chasing his personal goals knowing fully well that he's on borrowed time. It usually ends up breeding indiscipline which may be difficult to curb in the long run
Buhari started this bad idea of illegally elongating tenure of force chiefs during the Buratai era and unfortunately Tinubu also is towing same path
I don't know why APC is hell bent in breeding indiscipline among our forces instead of professionalising them further
APC is synonymous with incompetence and divisiveness

If that is the way forward we stand by you.

Lol.. na every time this ppl dey disband and restructure 😤

Useless administration of a drug criminal.

Change the dirty uniforms to look cleaner, smarter, and well equipped. We need to stop chasing shadows.

Things like this no be today. We still have SARS in principle. No amount of "disbanding" would confer competence on an incompetent entity

treesun:
Affected units reportedly include Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Anti-Cultism, Anti-Kidnapping, Scorpion Squad, Tactical Intelligence Response Squad (TIRS), Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Monitoring Units, Tiger Squad, Gender Units, Anti-Robbery squads, among others.


There is disquiet within the Nigeria Police Force following an order by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tunji Disu directing the immediate dissolution of multiple tactical units operating across commands nationwide.

Affected units reportedly include Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Anti-Cultism, Anti-Kidnapping, Scorpion Squad, Tactical Intelligence Response Squad (TIRS), Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Monitoring Units, Tiger Squad, Gender Units, Anti-Robbery squads, among others.


The directive, communicated through an internal wireless message obtained by SaharaReporters, was issued after a recent virtual meeting between senior police officers and the IGP.

According to the message, all existing tactical teams at the command, area command, and divisional levels, regardless of their operational names, have been ordered dissolved with immediate effect.

“Following the IGP’s directives at the just concluded Zoom meeting with Commissioners of Police and above, all existing tactical teams at commands are being reformed into two, with operational names to be provided by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations,” the message read in part.


The signal further specified that units such as “Lion, Tiger, Scorpion squads and others by whatever names called” are no longer to operate in their current form.

Under the new arrangement, only area commands and divisional surveillance units are permitted to function temporarily, pending further directives.

Personnel from the disbanded units are to be redeployed into conventional policing structures, including patrol and guard duties, the Divisional Crime Branch (DCB), Juvenile and Women Centre (JWC), and general beat assignments.

“The dissolved teams are to be subsumed into patrol and guard, DCB, JWC and beat with immediate effect,” the directive added.

The police hierarchy also indicated that further details regarding the restructuring would be unveiled during the end-of-month Officers’ Conference scheduled for March 26, 2026.

While the rationale behind the sweeping reform was not explicitly stated, the move comes amid longstanding public concerns over the conduct of certain tactical units, many of which have been accused of human rights abuses, extortion, and extrajudicial operations.

This is coming a few days after the IGP ordered a special resit promotion examination and interactive session for senior officers who were reportedly overlooked in previous cycles.

A confidential police wireless message obtained by SaharaReporters, dated March 16, 2026, shows that the Police Service Commission (PSC) has rescheduled the exercise for Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs), Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs), Chief Superintendents of Police (CSPs), and Superintendents of Police (SPs) who were “not successful” in the December 2025 and March 2026 promotion cycles.

Insiders had told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that the affected officers were allegedly sidelined by a sophisticated bribery scheme orchestrated during the tenure of former IGP Kayode Egbetokun.

According to sources, Egbetokun’s leadership, with the alleged complicity of senior PSC officials, systematically blocked deserving officers from promotions while advancing junior officers who paid large bribes, effectively stalling the careers of senior personnel.

The current IGP is reportedly moving to "reconsider and rectify" these injustices by providing a transparent window for the sidelined officers to earn their next ranks.

The signal, issued by Nigeria Police Force Secretary, directs all commands to release the affected officers to attend the interview as scheduled. To ensure the integrity of the process, the officers are "strongly advised to refresh their memories" in core areas including professional studies, law, and local acts.

The IGP has also ordered a high-security detail for the exercise.

The AIGPOL MOPOL is required to provide "twelve (12) neatly turned-out armed men for escort duty," while the transport wing (TRANSFOR) is to provide "two (2) serviceable Hilux vans" to be placed on standby at the FHQ Parade Ground by 06:00 HRS.



https://saharareporters.com/2026/03/22/breaking-inspector-general-disu-disbands-all-police-units-squads-nationwide-orders

The scrambling for placements begins!

Nice one. If tinubu get the police restructuring right. It might have a chance for reelection in the south and north central .

Anything outside state police is rubbish. It's the same thing and no thing else can change that. State and community policing

Long overdue!!!

This man go do well

Infact, make him start with that Elelenwo division for oilmill PORTHARCOURT. Those ones na criminals. Them too like debt recovery ehhhn
And to they settle boyfriend and girlfriend matter.

Then you see, those police way they like stay Ykc towards slaughter, hmmmm

Those ones their own na to dey collect #200 from keke and they look for person car way them go enter

Hmmmmmm, this man don to do sha

fineboynl:
Nice one. If tinubu get the police restructuring right. It might have a chance for reelection in the south and north central

For all of the hardship he has caused nigerians, nothing he does now will be able to fix it. Obviously, he is not going to fix the refineries not provide steady power supply. So he is doomed. The only way out for him is to rig it as he did before

I trust Disu. He did a phenomenal job with RRS in Lagos.

But they also disbanded SARS and we know that was just on paper.

Often, all these disbandments in Nigerian civil service are just to crest media buzz and put their own men in charge of new units

Tiger Base should be eliminated, no restructuring will wash away or stop their demonic practices. It's a blood-spilling, dark cult.

IGP Disu, please etch your name in the sand of times by ensuring that every policeman properly identifies himself with a name tag and proper uniform before asking for car papers.

In Onitsha around upper iweka, the police men there are hoodlums who kidnap motorists and extort them.

Benin policemen are also very notorious for human rights abuses..

I have declared that, I will never give my car papers to any policeman who is not properly dressed without name tags and service numbers.

If you try to intimidate me without meeting these conditions, I will record your face and send the images to cloud immediately.

If you want to scrutinize me, I must be able to properly identify you and the police formation you are attached to.

Same old tactic, police go , police come, Roger remains

Let's see how far this would go. It's a good development and I pray the IGP ends well.

Tiger squad wey no fit enter bush go fight kidnappers

Next thing, transfer all Policemen to go and work in their states of origin.

Kukutente23:
I hope this man knows what he's doing
Given Nigeria's dire security situation, I think we need more tactical and special units with adequate armaments than normal police duties
The Police need to expand not streamline
As for the part of promotion, it reeks more of vendetta either from Sowore or the new IG but if true, it sites the folly of keeping a man in office after his tenure is over. What eventually happens is that the occupant goes rogue and start chasing his personal goals knowing fully well that he's on borrowed time. It usually ends up breeding indiscipline which may be difficult to curb in the long run
Buhari started this bad idea of illegally elongating tenure of force chiefs during the Buratai era and unfortunately Tinubu also is towing same path
I don't know why APC is hell bent in breeding indiscipline among our forces instead of professionalising them further
APC is synonymous with incompetence and divisiveness

You are looking for likes via opposition teams . Police is doing their thing and you are linking APC to it . The president has appointed him already and you don't have the power to rescind his decision , so rest!

Kukutente23:
I hope this man knows what he's doing
Given Nigeria's dire security situation, I think we need more tactical and special units with adequate armaments than normal police duties
The Police need to expand not streamline
As for the part of promotion, it reeks more of vendetta either from Sowore or the new IG but if true, it sites the folly of keeping a man in office after his tenure is over. What eventually happens is that the occupant goes rogue and start chasing his personal goals knowing fully well that he's on borrowed time. It usually ends up breeding indiscipline which may be difficult to curb in the long run
Buhari started this bad idea of illegally elongating tenure of force chiefs during the Buratai era and unfortunately Tinubu also is towing same path
I don't know why APC is hell bent in breeding indiscipline among our forces instead of professionalising them further
APC is synonymous with incompetence and divisiveness

I am very sure the current IGP is more experienced and knows much better than you sir.
Your opinion isn't required here.
He is a security expert with years of experience.
You are not

VERY GOOD BESTEST NEWS EVER

treesun:
How many times will the units be disbanded Nlfpmod!

When has the units ever been disbanded apart from SARS

Passionate888:
Tiger squad wey no fit enter bush go fight kidnappers

Tiger way day fear bush, like someone always says on this forum "nor be juju be that"

donleo92:
Long overdue!!!

This man go do well

Infact, make him start with that Elelenwo division for oilmill PORTHARCOURT. Those ones na criminals. Them too like debt recovery ehhhn
And to they settle boyfriend and girlfriend matter.

Then you see, those police way they like stay Ykc towards slaughter, hmmmm

Those ones their own na to dey collect #200 from keke and they look for person car way them go enter

but na criminal minded individuals they join police for Nigeria na

engagingworld:
For all of the hardship he has caused nigerians, nothing he does now will be able to fix it. Obviously, he is not going to fix the refineries not provide steady power supply. So he is doomed. The only way out for him is to rig it as he did before

Sorry Sir . Are you the only person that will thumbprint on the whole ballot papers issued by INEC ? You talk as if you are the majority they are talking about during the election . Oga park well jor. In your polling unit , your candidate will be defeated . Mark my words!

engagingworld:
For all of the hardship he has caused nigerians, nothing he does now will be able to fix it. Obviously, he is not going to fix the refineries not provide steady power supply. So he is doomed. The only way out for him is to rig it as he did before

I understand. Many people will not vote but because of this restructure he might get some votes from North central and South.

At the end of the day, what is the benefit of keeping Egbetokun the former IG longer than necessary?

A man who has completed his official tenure should be allowed to go home peacefully!