'B' DEPARTMENT (OPERATIONS)

The 'B' Department (Operations) is central to all Police operational activities in Nigeria especially in the areas of crime prevention and maintenance of law and order.  The Department is under the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Audu Abubakar.

The department has the following responsibilities:

1. Planning  and organising internal security measures and monitoring their execution;
2. Direction and co-ordination of NPF Policies and crime prevention;
3. Formation of NPF Policies on traffic control and management;
4. Reviewing and formulating policies on tactical operations schemes of crime control and preventions;
5. Planning and coordinating of joint operation with Military, etc;
6. Formulating Policies for the control and management of incidents such as civil disturbances, riots, disasters, elections, suppression of insurrection and trade union dispute.
7. Utilisation of Force animals for crime prevention and
8. Formation and implementation of policies on anti-terrorism

The Department has the following sections to actualise its mandates:

1. 'B' Department Administration
   It is include directing, supervising and coordinating of the sections in the department and are made up of:
   a.  Secret Registry
   b.  Confidential Registry
   c.  Open Registry
   These arms of the section ensure that all the force orders, directives and regulations are fully adhere to.
2. 'B' Department (Federal Operations)
3. Force Veterinary Section
4. Joint Border Patrol Section
5. Police Mobile Force
6. Force Bomb Disposal Unit
7. Force Police Airwing
8. Froce Communication
9. Force Dog Section
10. Force Mounted Troop
11. Force Armaments Section
12. Anti-Terrorism Squad
13. Force Transport Office
14. Department of Peacekeeping Operations Unit
15. National Inland Waterways
16. Central Motor Registry (CMR)
17. Force Marine Section