Police detain officer that shot at moving vehicle in Delta

By Ochuko Akuopha

ASABA —THE Delta State Police Command has arrested and detained 1 of its operatives for allegedly shooting astatine a moving conveyance successful Asaba, the authorities capital.

Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Bright Edafe, confirmed this successful a statement, saying the operative was arrested pursuing a viral video connected the incident.

He said the authorities Commissioner of Police, Olufemi Abaniwonda, had directed that interior disciplinary enactment beryllium initiated immediately.

Edafe said: “The bid is alert of the viral video of a policeman who changeable astatine a moving conveyance successful Asaba. After a cautious introspection of the video clip, it is wide that the policemen acted successful an unprofessional manner, unbecoming of a constabulary officer.

‘The bid condemns his enactment successful totality arsenic nary policeman has the close to usage his firearm without recourse to Force Order 237.

“It is the work of each Nigerian Police serviceman to support lives and spot and not to enactment the beingness of anybody successful danger. The erring Police serviceman has been identified, summoned and detained astatine the Command headquarters.

“The Commissioner of Police, Abaniwonda, has directed that interior disciplinary enactment beryllium initiated immediately, and astatine the end, the serviceman has been taken into custody, queried, and an probe has commenced.

“The bid wishes to reiterate that, though the policeman was responding to a lawsuit of a hit-and-run accident, nary policeman is allowed to usage his firearm without justification, arsenic stipulated successful Force Order 237.

“The CP assures members of the nationalist that the serviceman acrophobic volition beryllium dealt with successful accordance with the extant laws arsenic stipulated successful the Police Act and regulations to service arsenic a deterrent to others.”

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