Inspector-General Kayode Egbetokun has drawn a firm line against officers dipping into land grabs and civil squabbles, vowing discipline for those who blur the badge into private matters, while kicking off a nationwide training push on a new digital crime database to end the era of vanished files and stalled probes.

In a no-nonsense video splashed across the force's X feed, Egbetokun hammered home that the Nigeria Police Force won't play muscle for hire: "Officers have no business escorting parties for land recovery... or meddling in civil cases without a demonstrable criminal element."

He framed such slips as stains on the uniform's honor, promising swift repercussions to keep the force above the fray and rebuild public faith in its impartiality.

Egbetokun also unveiled training for scores of operatives on the Criminal Database Systems, dubbing it the "nervous system of 21st-century Nigerian policing" during a kickoff in Abuja.

Aimed at swapping gut-feel responses for data-driven hunts, the platform promises to log every bust, track every tip, and plug into global nets like INTERPOL and UNODC, ensuring crooks can't ghost across borders. "Without data, there is no memory. Without memory, there is no justice," he told the trainees, charging them as guardians of records that could tip scales from acquittals to airtight convictions.

Egbetokun spotlighted Nigeria's old bugbears—scattered intel and lost dossiers—as trust-busters, but painted the database as a game-changer backed by federal bucks and partners, weaving in predictive tools to spot threats before they strike.

As officers gear up at division, zone, and state levels, the dual moves signal a force eyeing sharper edges and cleaner hands, though skeptics await proof in the daily grind.