By; RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE, Lagos
The newly appointed and deployed 12 Commissioners of Police to their various commands have been charged to entrench professionalism and respect for fundamental rights in all officers and men under their supervision.
They were equally urged to adequately engrain community-oriented policing in their various jurisdictions to achieve modern, technology-based, and people-oriented policing services on all fronts.
The Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba gave the charges when he ordered the immediate posting of the Commissioners to their various State Commands yesterday.
Force spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a statement yesterday,. hinted that the IGP tasked the Senior Police Officers to proceed immediately to their respective duty posts and take charge of the affairs of their offices, and execute the policing agenda of the Force leadership.
” Following the approval of the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR, for the posting of Commissioners of Police to various State Commands by the Police Service Commission (PSC), the IGP has ordered the immediate deployment of Commissioners of police to various commands across the country. The IGP tasked the Senior Police Officers to proceed immediately to their respective duty posts and take charge of the affairs of their offices, and execute the policing agenda of the Force leadership.
” The newly posted Commissioners of Police comprise CP’s Mohammed Usaini Gumel – Kano State Command; Haruna Gabriel Garba – FCT Command Abuja; Tajudeen A. Abass – Delta State Command; Oladimeji Yomi Olarewaju – Ogun State Command; Taiwo Jesubiyi – Ondo State Command; Julius A. Okoro – Benue State Command; Romokere Ibiani – Bayelsa State Command; Mohammed Bunu – Yobe State Command; Garba Musa Yusuf – Kaduna State Command; Garba Ahmed – Zamfara State Command; Hayatu Kaigama Ali – Sokoto State Command; and Aliyu Musa – Katsina State Command.
” The Inspector-General of Police has charged the Senior Police Officers to entrench professionalism and respect for fundamental rights in all officers and men under their supervision leveraging on the recent training for Strategic Police Managers held at the Nigeria Institute of Police Studies (NIPS), Jabi, Abuja. He equally urged them to adequately engrain community-oriented policing in their various jurisdictions to achieve modern, technology-based, and people-oriented policing services on all fronts”, Adejobi stated.
