IGP directs immediate deployment of CPs to state commands

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*Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba


(Nigeria) The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, has directed the immediate deployment of Commissioners of Police to various state commands by the Police Service Commission, PSC.

Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said: “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 Gumel - Kano State Command; Haruna Garba - FCT Command Abuja; Tajudeen Abass - Delta State Command; Oladimeji Olarewaju - Ogun State Command; Taiwo Jesubiyi - Ondo State Command; Julius Okoro - Benue State Command; Romokere Ibiani - Bayelsa State Command; Mohammed Bunu - Yobe State Command; Garba Yusuf - Kaduna State Command; Garba Ahmed - Zamfara State Command; Hayatu 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.”

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