The Federal Police Commission said it has launched institutional reform to ensure the sustainability of the ongoing nationwide change and better serve the public.
Endeshaw Tassew, Commissioner General of the Commission told Journalists today that the reform mainly focused on manpower, technology, training, logistics, and relations that will exist with stakeholders.
Based on the reform, deployment and structure of federal police have been revised and divided in four clusters; namely north, south, west, and central clusters, he said.
The reform also includes the establishment city’s special federal police and federal police air wing to conduct surveillance in urban areas, the Commissioner indicated.
The Commission is also devising a law to determine what weapons should federal and regional police as well as special force and militias carry, he added.
An investigation manual, which was prepared as part the reform, will come into effect soon, he added.
According to the Commissioner, investigation rooms fitted with cameras and which allow a third party to follow investigation process were also arranged to prevent human rights violations during investigation.