The newly posted Commissioner of Police Oyo State Command, Ngozi Vivian Onadeko has said that her targeted goal in the state is to ensure that lives and property are well protected.
She stated this on Friday, January 15, 2021 at the command headquarters at Eleyele, Ibadan during the handing and taking over ceremony.
This was made known by the state police image-maker, CSP Olugbenga Fadeyi.
CP Onadeko is the first female police boss to assume such position in the state.
The outgoing police commissioner, Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu, would be going to the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, Plateau State for a course.
In her citation revealed by the PPRO, CP Onadeko is an alumnus of the prestigious Imo State University, Imo State where she bagged BSc. (Hons) degree in Sociology in 1985.
She later proceeded to University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State where she also bagged Master’s degree (MSc.) in Criminology.
The police commissioner was appointed into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (POLAC/ Cadet ASP Course 15) on March 15, 1988, and was trained at the Nigeria Police Academy Annex, Kaduna State between 1988 and 1989.
She has served in various administrative and operational capacities such as Crime and Staff Officer SOI, SOJ between 1989 and 1993 in Imo State Police Command.
From 1993 to 2001, she served as a directing staff at Police College Ikeja, Lagos State.
She equally served as Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Divisional Crime Officer (DCO), Area Crime Officer (ACO), Staff Officer and Chief Superintendent of Police (Administration), all in Lagos State Command.
She was later redeployed to Police Academy, Kano in 2008 as a directing Staff.
Between 2009 and 2016, as an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), she was ACP Intelligence, (FIIB), FHQ Annex; ACP X-Squad FCIID Alagbon; and Area Commander, Eastern Port Authority Police Command, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
She was second-in-command and Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration, Delta State Command, between 2016 and 2019, from where she proceeded on course to the National Defence College on September 1, 2019.
After her being promoted to the rank of a Commissioner of Police on December 21, 2019, she was posted to the Department of Training and Development, Force Headquarters, Abuja as CP Training.
She attended various on-the-job courses during her career, which include Advanced Detective Course (ADC) 1999, Operational Leadership Command Course (OLCC) 2005, Tactical Leadership Command Course (TLCC) 2009, and Strategic Leadership Command Course (SLCC) 2015, all at Police Staff College Jos, and National Defence College (NDC) Abuja,
Onadeko has professional qualifications to her credit, among which are Pass Staff College, psc, Member, Nigerian Institute of Management, (mnin) and Fellow of the Defence College, (fdc). She is equally a member of professional institutions, which include International Association of Women Police (IAWP) and International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), United States of America (USA). She is married with children.
Fadeyi described her as a thoroughbred professional who distinguished herself in all the places she has served.
Consequently, all the experiences she has gathered over the years shall be brought to Oyo State to consolidate the existing security apparatus,” the PPRO stated.
“The CP assures the good people of Oyo State of maximum protection to lives and property, while she solicits constant dissemination of credible information, in enabling the police to serve them better,” Fadeyi said further.