Updating the new Minister of Internal Affairs, Rtd Maj Gen, David Taluva during his maiden meeting with the Executive Management Board (EMB) of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) on their administrative set up, operations and plan interventions, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr. William Fayia Sellu informed that the SLP has one of the best cyber investigations laboratory, second only to South Africa in Africa.
The facility, he went on, was provided by a Rtd USA special force named Jerry Torres.
Officers he said have been trained but more needs to be done and the facility expanded.
He also spoke on the need for intelligence-gathering gadgets as their activities are intelligence-led.
The Inspector General also informed that the SLP is divided into six administrative regions with each region headed by a Regional Commander.
The force he said has thirty-six (36) local command units across the country.
“We generate our strategic development plan that lasts for three years and it is drawn from the national action plan of the government,” said IGP Sellu.
The plan he stated has five goals from which each Division develops its own action plan that guides its daily operations.
The SLP plan intervention he said is capacity building, noting that they need training in different areas local and international, forensic and cyber.
He commended the current EMB and the support he receives from them referring to them as the cabinet of the SLP.
The Minister in his response disclosed that what he intends to achieve in his first year is to transform the SLP using six key thematic areas including training, weeding out bad personnel, hands the force off from politics, focus on their job, maintain impartiality and patriotism by putting Sierra Leone first.
