Police Commission Dismiss Four,  Demote Two Officers

News Rain Nigeria reports that the Police  Service Commission has on Sunday announced the dismissal of four of its Officers while also demote two for misconducts.

The development according to Police Service Commission disclosed that the four senior Police Officers were dismissed over cases of serious misconduct and acts unbecoming of public officers, the Commission also noted that the two other Officers were demoted.

Police Commission in a statement issued and signed by its Head, Press and Public Relation Officer Mr. Ikechukwu Ani on Sunday 20th December 2020,  maintained that the decisions was taken at its 10th. Plenary Meeting presided over by Commission Chairman, Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police and which came to an end on Friday, December 18th, 2020.

According to the statement, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, was dismissed for discreditable conduct, dishonesty and act unbecoming of a public Officer while a Superintendent of Police was also dismissed for conspiring with four others to vandalize a transformer and stealing.

Police Commission also through the statement directed that the Officer should be prosecuted with immediate effect.

The Police Commission also maintained that the two other dismissed Officers are one Deputy Superintendent of Police DSP and an Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP.

The DSP was said to have led a team that intercepted three Mercedes Benz trucks conveying about 300,000 live cartridges believed to have been smuggled across the border from Benin Republic into Nigeria.

The team was said to have impounded the trucks at base for three days but made no entries nor a situation report of the arrest relayed. The DSP rather raised a fake letter purporting to escort the vehicles and suspects to Federal SARS Lagos with the dubious intention of ensuring their unlawful release. Luck however ran out of the team when they were intercepted at a Military checkpoint where soldiers on duty insisted on verifying the contents of the trucks.

The DSP and his team were said to have abandoned the trucks and fled.

Police Commission however stressed that the ASP was dismissed for misappropriation, action prejudicial to the security of the state; sabotage; dishonesty and act unbecoming of a public officer.