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Arase made this known on Tuesday while briefing officers and men at the state Police Command in Yenagoa, the state capital, ahead of the poll.
He expressed the readiness of the police to provide adequate security before, during and after the poll.
The IGP said, “We are very ready for the Bayelsa election. We did a similar thing two weeks ago in Kogi State and we have decided to replicate it again here in Bayelsa.
“We are going to be deploying approximately 14,000 officers and men in all the eight local governments areas. We are going to dominate the security space; we are going to provide an aerial surveillance.
“We are going to lock down the waterways. A DIG is supposed to come and supervise the election here, with three additional commissioners and about 15 units of Police Mobile Force. So, we are very ready.”
On speculation that some political parties planned to use fake policemen during the poll, the police boss explained that such a venture would not work.
He stated that the police had a unique identity for each of its men that would be deployed during the poll.
Arase said, “The use of fake policemen will not be possible. This is because we have a unique identity for each policeman we are going to deploy for the election.
“So, anybody who has invested in trying to get uniforms or trying to be fake policemen, I think that is a bad investment. It cannot work.”
He dismissed the claim that policemen would be used to rig the poll, stressing that the police are apolitical and not a political party.
He added, “We are agents to enforce the law. We are not the one to conduct the election. The Independent National Electoral Commission is the one to conduct the election.
“The police job is very simple, to ensure that we put in place a robust security architecture that will enable the people to move and vote fairly and freely in the election.
“So, I do not know about anybody influencing anybody; certainly not under my watch.”
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