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The Peacekeeping Operations and Training Section is headed by DCP Adamu who reports directly to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, ‘B’ Department for effective supervision. He is assisted by an officer of the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police, who is the Deputy-Head, Peacekeeping Ops & Training. The Section serves as the focal point in the NPF on all issues relating to the pre-deployment training, testing, deployments, discipline, rotations, equipment, welfare, re-integration after duty tour, for all foreign operations which the NPF is involved. In order to enhance the capacity of the Section, the following Units are in place: Administration, Training, Transport, Database/Documentation, Logistics, Passage, Language/Media relation, among others. The Nigeria Police NPF has a total of six hundred and sixteen (616) officers and men on Peacekeeping Operations in various parts of the world. Out of this number, two hundred and forty five (245) are members of Formed Police Units in Haiti and Liberia, while three hundred and seventy-one (371) are Police monitors in both UN and AU Missions. The personnel are deployed in the following areas: Haiti (MINUSTAH) - one hundred and twenty nine (129); East Timor (UNMIT) fifty seven (57), Kosovo (UNMIK) - twenty (20), Liberia (UNMIL) one hundred and forty-two (142); Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) – Four (4); Sudan (UNMIS) fifty-seven (57); Cote D’Ivoire (UNOCI) - four (4); Afghanistan one (1) and Burundi – one (1). Similarly, two hundred and one (201) Nigeria Police Officers and men are deployed in Sudan (UNAMIDS) as Police Monitors.
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