Police Service Commission (PSC), on Friday, approved the promotion of 684 Senior Police officers to their next ranks.
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the spokesperson of the Commission, Mr Ikechukwu Ani.
According to the statement, the exercise was approved at the first Plenary Meeting of the new Board of the Commission held on Friday which presided over by its Chairman DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd).
It explained that ” Eight Commissioners of Police were elevated to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police, AIGs, 15 Deputy Commissioners of Police promoted to the next rank of full Commissioners of Police. 52 Chief Superintendents of Police were promoted to Assistant Commissioners of Police, 525 Superintendents of Police were promoted to the rank of Chief Superintendents of Police, and 84 Deputy Superintendents were promoted to Superintendents of Police.
According to it, ” the eight Commissioners of Police and 15 Deputy Commissioners were subjected to some form of assessment/examination, a condition now precedent for their promotion to the new ranks.
The statement explained that the Chairman of the Commission, DIG Argungu said that the Officers must engage in deliberate self-development through constant knowledge acquisition to be ready and equipped to face the challenges of 21st-century policing.
According to it, Argungu said that henceforth Police Officers would be subjected to formal examination before consideration for their promotion stressing that it was a requirement imposed on all Federal civil and Public Servants by the Public Service Rules and that the Police Officers would not be an exemption.
The PSC Chairman who further said that the Commission would ensure that promotions in the Police would be merit-based and predictable assured that the Commission would not for any reason delay the promotion of deserving Officers
According to it, “the Commissioners of Police promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police are CP Benneth Igwe; Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Command; Suleiman Mohammed Abdul, acting Assistant Inspector General of Police, PAB, Force Headquarters Abuja; CP Augustina Nwuka Ogbodo, CP Ebonyi State Command; CP Stephen Olanrewaju, CP Admin, Works, Force Headquarters Abuja; CP Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, CP Abia State Command; CP Fayoade Adegoke Mustapha, CP Lagos State Command; CP Adegboyega Funsho Adegboye, CP Admin, FID, Abuja and CP Mohammed Bala Labbo, CP Communication DICT Force Headquarters, Abuja.
” The 15 Deputy Commissioners of Police elevated to substantive Commissioners of Police are; DCP Innocent Ifeanyi Emenari, DCP State CID Taraba State Command; DCP Betty Enekpen Otimenyin, DCP DFA, Zone 5 Benin; DCP James Iroegbunam Nwokolo, DC DFA, Edo State Command; DCP Felix Nka Oben, DC Federal Operations, Force Headquarters Annex Lagos; DCP Olusegun Eyitayo Omosayin DC Armament, Directorate of Operations, Force Headquarters Abuja; DCP Ugobueze Ogbodo, Deputy Commandant, Police Detective College Enugu; DCP Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe, DC Department of Operations, Zone 11 Osogbo and DCP Taylor Lennox Olarewaju, DC, CCR, Lagos State.
” Others are; DCP Sa’adatu Ismaila, DC Anti Human Trafficking Annex Lagos; DCP Olabode Adeleye Akinbamilowo, Deputy Force Secretary (DFS11), DCP Regina Cosmas Udoette, DC Department of Finance and Admin, Akwa Ibom State Command; DCP Francis Omatimeyin Gbiwen, DC, State CID Edo state Command; DCP Afolabi Wilfred Olatokunbo, DC Department of Finance and Admin, Delta State Command; DCP Ohiozoba Oyakhire Ehiede Acting CP Legal, FCID Force Headquarters Abuja and DCP Anthonia Adaku Uche-Anya, DC, Department of Finance and Admin FID.
It stated that the Commission has conveyed its approval to the Inspector General of Police for Implementation and further necessary action.
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