BY EVELYN DADU, ABUJA – Following the recent promotion of Senior Police Officers by the Police Service Commission, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu has ordered the posting/redeployment of five newly promoted Deputy Inspectors General of Police.
The new DIGs are to oversee departments of the Force, whose former heads retired recently after the completion of their service years.
The promoted Senior Officers include DIG Usman Alkali Baba, who will now head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) while DIG Ibrahim A. Lamorde will take charge of the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) just as DIG David Oyebanji Folawiyo is to now oversee the Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
In the same vein, DIG Joseph O. Egbunike is to take charge of the Department of Finance and Administration with DIG Dan-Mallam Mohammed taking charge of the Department of Training and Development even as AIG Moses Ambakina Jitoboh, was redeployed from the Border Patrol Section to Acting DIG in-charge of the Department of Research and Planning.
IGP Adamu while congratulating the Officers, who by this promotion and posting, are now members of the Force Management Team, charged them to bring their vast experience and professionalism to bear in their leadership of the Departments to enhance the ongoing reforms and repositioning of the Force.
A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba said the postings/redeployments are with immediate effect.
