AIB Trains Police on Crash Site Security

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has successfully trained the first batch of 20 Police Officers on how to secure crash site. The objective of the training, which was held at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos was to inculcate in the officers peculiar security regulations as it concerns the protection of crash site from people so that the site would be intact for investigation. The police officers were drawn from Airports Command and Special Protection Unit at the Ikeja Police Command in Lagos for the two days exercise. AIB also said that the second batch of the training was scheduled to commence in Abuja in the next one week, assuring that with training of the officers, the era of tampering with accident investigative evidences was over. The General Manager, Security and Industries, AIB, Mr. Olumide Osineye, who coordinated the training for the officers, said that the exercise would further enhance the performance of accident investigators in the Bureau in case of an accident. Osineye in an interview with journalists, during the training, said that the novel idea was the brainchild of the Commissioner of AIB, Akin Olateru who insisted that police officers must be adequately trained to support the Bureau’s accident investigation. Osineye explained that the training was put together to provide the aviation security awareness to police officers and also to explain the roles of the police at aircraft accident sites. He declared that the training cut across police officers posted to the airport command and also those at the Special Protection Unit at Ikeja deployed to AIB.