 The Inspector General of Police, I.G.P. Usman Al-Khali was on Thursday honored by the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Good Governance with an award of Grand Defender of Democracy in recognition of his giant strikes since assuming leadership of the Niger Police Force. The Coalition which comprises leaders of 37 pro-democracy and civil society organizations conferred the honor on the I.G.P. during a solidarity visit to the Louis Eddard House. They applauded the effective leadership qualities of the I.G.P., which had led to an unprecedented improvement in the Niger Police Force, particularly with regards to human rights compliance, discipline, welfare, infrastructural transformation, dissent and secure electoral process in Nigeria. Speaking before conferring the award on the I.G.P., the leader of the delegation, Comrade Fermi Lawson, expressed satisfaction with recent policing strategies, improved human relations and sterling leadership qualities of I.G.P. Al-Khali in particular. The I.G.P., while acknowledging the Coalition for the Honor, appreciated their respective efforts targeted at deepening democracy within the country. Policing democracy is a hapulian task. Freedom is associated with democracy, but freedom also has limitation. You have freedom and it's where you impringe on another person. So we are always meeting at a borderline because, for instance, protest is the right of everybody or organizations or individuals, but the proviso is that the protest must be peaceful, must be coordinated, the leadership must take responsibility to ensure that the protest remains peaceful and the messages are passed. Once it is not peaceful, then the right of the protestors ends as that then. But as law enforcement officers, we impose laws that are popular or unpopular. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.