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By: Okosun Dennis
Within one month, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has taken a swipe on some Divisional Police Officers (DPO) over unprofessional conduct in their jurisdictions.
In order to ensure standards and ethics of the profession is maintained, he has ordered with immediate effect the redeployment of CSP Francis Ani, the Divisional Police Officer, Onipanu Division of the Lagos State Police Command and some of his boys for the harassment and illegal detention of Tunde Abass and one Kabir Mohammed at Onipanu on Friday, 19th March, 2021.
He had also few weeks ago redeployed Ajao Estate Divisional Police Officer for an unprofessional misbehaviour which ran contrary to discipline expected of an officer of that status.
Tunde Abass was alleged by the police at Onipanu Division for recording the harassment and forceful arrest of Kabir Mohammed at Onipanu Area of the State on Friday 19th March, 2021 about 5pm after Tunde’s intervention in the case which did not go well with the policemen.
The police boss took the decision on Wednesday, 24th March, 2021, after he perused the report of the investigation into the incident that had gone viral on the gross violation of Tunde’s human rights by the DPO and his boys.
The Commissioner of Police has, therefore, condemned such act of unprofessionalism and excessive use of power to send a signal to the whole world that the command will not, for whatever reason, condone such act; and to serve as deterrent to other policemen who are fond of harassing, extorting and engaging in acts of lawlessness, unprofessionalism and gross violation of poeole’s human rights in the state.
CP Hakeem Odumosu has also ordered that the concerned policemen in the unprofessional act be tried in the orderly room in order to award punishments accordingly, while the DPO be redeployed to the State Command Headquarters, Ikeja.
