The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it is taking security architecture to the doorstep of FCT residents.
Mr Adamu Gwary, Director, Security Service Department of the FCTA, stated this during the department’s end-of-year press briefing, in Abuja on Tuesday.
Gwary identified one of the security architectures as the ongoing construction of 12 new Police Divisional Headquarters with staff quarters across the six area councils of the FCT.
He explained that the measure was the outcome of security town hall meetings held across the six area councils in the early part of the year to interact and get feedback from residents.
He added that security agencies were also being supported with logistics and operational vehicles to improve security operations in rural communities.
Gwary, a fellow of the National Defence College, said that the support was based on the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike’s determination to enhance security operations in the FCT, particularly in rural areas.
He also said that the Security Services Department has done well in the year under review in terms of ensuring that security agencies in the territory were adequately supported.
The director said that the support was designed to enhance their operational capacity to take security operations to every nuke and crannies of the territory.
He explained that the principal role of the department was to interface with security agencies to provide effective security in the FCT.
“We usually receive intelligence reports from members as it concerns security, processed and sent to security agencies for appropriate action.
“Such information comes from either the FCT Call Centre or internal mechanism of information gathering.
“We are not arm-bearing personnel of security, but security administrators to ensure that the arm-bearing personnel do their work in the FCT more effectively,” he said. (NAN)
