IGP Deploys Commissioners Of Police To State Commands
…Charges on entrenching professionalism, community-oriented policing
Following the approval of the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, for the posting of Commissioners of Police to various State Commands by the Police Service Commission (PSC), the police boss has ordered the immediate deployment of Commissioners of police to various commands across the country.
Accordingly, the IGP the Commissioners of Police 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 and their states of postings comprise CP’s Mohammed Usaini Gumel – Kano, Haruna Gabriel Garba – FCT; Tajudeen A. Abass – Delta, Oladimeji Yomi Olarewaju – Ogun, Taiwo Jesubiyi – Ondo, Julius A. Okoro – Benue, Romokere Ibiani – Bayelsa, Mohammed Bunu – Yobe, Garba Musa Yusuf – Kaduna, Garba Ahmed – Zamfara, Hayatu Kaigama Ali – Sokoto, and Aliyu Musa – Katsina State Command.
IGP Baba charged the Commissioners of Police 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.
A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said that IGP Baba also challenged the senior Police Officers to adequately engrain community-oriented policing in their various jurisdictions to achieve modern, technology-based, and people-oriented policing services on all fronts.
