The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate deployment of Commissioners of Police to various commands across the country.
The order followed the Police Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of the IGP’s recommendation for the postings.
The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who made this known on Thursday, April 27, 2023, said that the IGP tasked the senior police officers to proceed to their respective duty posts immediately to take charge of the affairs of their offices.
IGP Alkali also charged them to execute the policing agenda of the Force leadership.
The newly posted Commissioners of Police include Tajudeen A. Abass, Delta State Command; Mohammed Usaini Gumel, Kano State Command; Oladimeji Yomi Olarewaju, Ogun State Command; Haruna Gabriel Garba, FCT Command Abuja; Taiwo Jesubiyi, Ondo State Command; Julius A. Okoro, Benue State Command; Romokere Ibiani, Bayelsa State Command; Mohammed Bunu, Yobe State Command; Garba Musa Yusuf, Kaduna State Command; Garba Ahmed, Zamfara State Command; Hayatu Kaigama Ali, Sokoto State Command; and Aliyu Musa, Katsina State Command.
The IGP asked the Commissioners of Police 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.
