Police Commission Asks IGP to Screen Police Commissioners over Killing of Officers
The Police Service Commission has called for the sanctioning of police commissioners in Delta state over the killing of police officers in the state.
Six police officers were killed, and six others missing while investigating the disappearance of three police officers in Ohoro forest in the state.
The commission chairman, Solomon Arase said the new wave of killing of police officers is becoming worrisome and should be tackled.
Arase in a statement signed by the commission’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani asked the Inspector General of Police to take another look at the capacity of the police commissioners in some of the state police commands.
He said the sanctioning of the Imo state police commissioner would serve as a deterrent to other police commissioners.
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Arase, a former inspector general of police, said any police commissioner found to be incompetent, should be redeployed to avoid further worrisome killing of police officers in their commands.
The statement partly read: Any state Commissioner of Police found incompetent, derelict, and operationally/tactically porous should be eased out to avoid these huge police casualties.
The commission wishes to condole the Inspector-General of Police, Dr. Olukayode Egbetokun, on these unfortunate developments, especially at a time when all hands are supposed to be on deck to rid the nation of militancy and banditry.
The commission has had more than a fair share of these ugly developments in recent times and called for integrated intelligence policing.
He also offered his condolences to the families of the slain officers and said that the time had come for state command commissioners to rise to the occasion.
It, however, enjoined the serving officers not to be demotivated by these ugly developments but to reenact their indomitable fighting spirit that the Force is known for to ward off this new wave of assaults.
