For involving himself in a certain act of impropriety, a serving Nigeria police officer has been served with his punishment.
Men of the Nigeria Police Officers
The Nigeria Police Force in Abuja on Wednesday said it has demoted a
police sergeant serving in the FCT Command to the rank of corporal, the
News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The police officer was demoted to a lower rank for extortion.
A statement by Abayomi Shogunle, Head of the Public Complaint Rapid
Response Unit, said the action followed a report to the complaint
response unit.
Mr. Shogunle, an assistant commissioner of police, said that eight
other officers also received varying degree of sanctions for
professional misconduct.
He said the unit successfully resolved 636 cases out of the 822
complaints it received during the fourth quarter of 2016 from across the
country.
He said that Lagos State Command topped the chart with 153 cases
representing 18.62 per cent, while Kebbi Command recorded no single case
since inception of the unit.
Mr. Shogunle added that the FCT and Rivers Commands followed Lagos with 130 and 116 cases, respectively.
Kebbi and Jigawa Commands remained at the bottom with no case
reported against them, while Taraba and Katsina state Commands recorded
one case each during the period under review.
He said that 156 reported cases were found to be false in the last
quarter of 2016, compare to the 96 in first quarter, 35 in second
quarter and 51 in third quarter.
Shogunle said 30 reported cases were still under investigation,
adding that phone calls topped channels of complaints to the unit with
591 calls.
He said that police officers captured in recent viral online videos
alleged of misconduct have been identified; apprehended and undergoing
departmental actions.
Mr. Shogunle said that Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris,
had instituted a reward mechanism to reward police commands with zero
case of police professional misconduct.
He said Mr. Ibrahim had mandated the unit to also attend to
complaints of abuse of office, corrupt practices involving public and
civil servants at all levels of government.
He stressed that to support the “Change Begins with Me” initiative
of the Federal Government, the unit’s Call Centre at Force Headquarters
was being upgraded to meet up with the added tasks.
Mr. Shogunle said the unit during the period under review
distributed flyers in English and local languages to the 774 local
government areas in the country.
He noted that the initiative had increased public awareness about
the unit, leading to high public patronage via the various contact
platforms.
“It is on record that the unit since inception has ensured
timely investigations of reported complaint and appropriate punishment
of erring police officers,” he said.
The unit was established by the police authorities to enable
aggrieved members of the public reach out to the authorities through a
24-hours interactive platforms to seek redress in cases of alleged
police professional misconduct.
The platforms, included Phone calls, SMS, WhatsApp, BBM, Twitter, Facebook and e-mail.
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