Police sanction eight erring officers for misconduct in Ondo

The Police Command successful Ondo State reports that nary less than 8 officers person been sanctioned for nonrecreational misconduct successful the past 2 months.

The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Adebowale Lawal, disclosed this successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) successful Akure connected Friday.

Lawal said that the bid nether his enactment was adhering strictly to the nonrecreational morals and norms of the Nigeria Police.

The Commissioner of Police explained that the authorisation was based connected complaints received from members of the nationalist during the period.

He noted that the bid had fixed members of the nationalist avenues successful making complaints and showing their grievances connected immoderate erring officers and men of the command.

“We person the monitoring units. We person the provost. We person the ailment effect portion (CRU).

“So, erstwhile we get complaints astir immoderate officer, that idiosyncratic faces it. Some person been detained portion immoderate person been queried. It depends connected your fertile oregon you look the country trial.

“As a substance of fact, we speech astir it daily: corruption, extortion and amerciable roadblock. We pass our men to desist from such. If you are caught, you volition look the music.

“So far, truthful good, astir 8 officers of the bid person been sanctioned successful past 2 months,” helium said.

Lawal, who commended the nationalist for the command’s occurrence implicit the past 2 months, asked the nationalist to consciousness escaped to study their complaints to the divisional constabulary officer, the constabulary country commander, oregon to telephone him directly.

He urged members of the nationalist to proceed providing the bid with applicable accusation for the information and extortion of lives and property.

According to him, helium has made himself accessible to the public, intimately monitoring each officers and men successful the bid to guarantee the ratio and proficiency of policing.

He appreciated the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, for the punctual outgo of constabulary salaries, noting that immoderate unit had been promoted owed to their fantabulous performance, portion others were rewarded.

Lawal added that helium personally appreciated the unit who excelled during the erstwhile week, arsenic reviewed during the play activities.

“Just telephone my fig and I volition pick. I person asked the DPOs and Area Commanders to marque their compartment telephone numbers known and accessible arsenic well.

“I spell retired to cheque country commands and units due to the fact that I americium not an armchair commander.

“We person to pb by example, and that is the ngo of the IGP. So, we person to cardinal into it: transparency, accountability, and practice with different agencies, which, of course, we are enjoying.

“There’s nary rivalry, nary competition,” helium told NAN.

He stated that broad and regular stakeholder meetings with the nationalist had been a important contributor to the occurrence of the bid since his presumption of work connected June 30, 2025.

The CP stated that the IGP had made it a precedence to bid and retrain unit successful diligent probe and transgression fighting, truthful that determination would beryllium a beardown prosecution of suspects successful court.

Lawal added that the bid had prepared an operational bid for the ember months to guarantee that the past 4th of the twelvemonth was crime-free successful Ondo State.

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