{"id":245052,"date":"2015-01-20T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/nscdc-to-deploy-60000-personnel-sniffer-dogs-for-feb-polls\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:57:00","slug":"nscdc-to-deploy-60000-personnel-sniffer-dogs-for-feb-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/20\/nscdc-to-deploy-60000-personnel-sniffer-dogs-for-feb-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC To Deploy 60,000 Personnel, Sniffer Dogs For Feb. Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-234442\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/01\/b221k9-team-nscdc.jpg\" alt=\"k9-team-nscdc\" width=\"720\" height=\"449\" \/>The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has said it will deploy 60,000 of its personnel to ensure the security of Nigerians and government installations before, during and after the 2015 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Corps\u2019 Deputy Commandant-General in charge of operations,\u00a0Evans Ewurum, stated this on Monday in Abuja while speaking on the Corps\u2019 preparedness for the February elections.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was no need to employ more personnel for NSCDC to be able to effectively carry out its responsibilities during the elections, insisting that the corps has the adequate manpower for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Ewurum\u00a0added that: \u201cWe will deploy dogs that have the capability to detect Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Commandant-General said apart from the 25 dogs that can detect IEDs, 500 sniffer dogs will also be put to use during the polls while efforts were being made to procure more from the US before the elections.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above measures,\u00a0Ewurum\u00a0said forensic psychologists and modern surveillance vehicles will be deployed.<\/p>\n<p>While expressing the NSCDC\u2019s readiness for the elections, he, however, noted that the success of the polls will depend more on the professionalism of the media. \u201cThe success of the election depends on all of us but the press has a bigger role to play by not overheating the polity through exaggerated reports\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has said it will deploy 60,000 of its personnel to ensure the security of Nigerians and government installations before, during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}