Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Disu has ordered the Kano State Police Command to adopt an offensive operational posture against criminals, telling officers at a strategic lecture in Kano that waiting for crime to happen before responding was no longer acceptable and that the force had to take the fight to criminal elements before they could strike.
Represented by Deputy Inspector-General Sulaiman Abdul in charge of the North-West Zone, Disu announced the launch of Handshake Patrol, a joint operation between security forces from Kano and neighboring Katsina State designed to intercept bandits at state borders before they could penetrate urban areas or evade security forces by crossing jurisdictional lines. He said the operation was specifically intended to deny criminals the ability to exploit administrative boundaries between states as escape routes.
The lecture, themed around asymmetric threat preemption, urban gang management, and the security of commercial hubs, addressed the specific challenge of the Yan Daba youth gangs that had become a persistent source of violent crime in Kano. Disu commended the command for its work against the groups while making clear that more needed to be done and that the standard going forward was proactive disruption rather than reactive response.
He outlined six pillars he described as foundational to modern internal security: seamless inter-agency intelligence sharing that dissolved institutional silos between the police, military, and DSS; intelligence-led and technology-driven operations; strict accountability and human rights compliance; community policing and public trust; operational standardization and specialization; and sustained investment in personnel welfare and capacity building.
