The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 3, Adeniyi Afolabi, has assumed duty at the zonal headquarters in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State.
The AIG took over from DIG
Daniel Sokari-Pedro, who became the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of Information Communication Technology, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
According to a statement by the Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP Yusuf Adamu Mohammed, AIG Afolabi hails from Epinmi Akoko Ondo State, and after graduating from University of Lagos with Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mass Communication, he was
commissioned into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Officer in 1990.
AIG Afolabi was a member of the Nigerian contingents
deployed to the United Nations (UN) Peace Keeping Missions in Kosovo, Bosnia and Darfur to coordinate the post-war reform, restructuring and
engagement program. These gained him more recognitions for leadership excellent, professionalism and integrity.
He is said to be an officer with broad professional exposure, stretching through operations,
strategic management, investigation and intelligence.
AIG Afolabi served as an ADC to the former governor of Ondo State, and has, at various times in his career, also served as Area Commander Yola, Commander 16 PMF Abeokuta, Commander 53 PMF Bama, Deputy Commissioner of Police In-charge of Operations Yobe State Command and Commissioner of Police Adamawa State Command.
AIG Afolabi holds the enviable professional record of being among the first set of senior police officers trained at the prestigious National
Institute for Police Studies in Abuja in the year 2020 and has also attended various courses within and outside Nigeria.
An officer with a flair for intellectual engagement and reform oriented, his policing vision was founded on the high breed and intertwined models of citizens’ engagements and intelligence-led as well as technology-driven policing.
AIG Afolabi is bringing to Zone 3 Police Headquarters leadership table a rich intellectual background, strategic policing exposure at the highest level of force leadership, diverse policing knowledge and expansive professional network towards providing requisite leadership that would possibly change policing narratives in the two component states under the zone.
He is married to a nurse by profession, Mrs. Toyin Afolabi and they are blessed with children.
The ZPRO enjoined good people of Adamawa and Taraba states to give the AIG maximum support in the discharge of his duty.
