Ajirioghene Imah
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba as part of his manpower development policy targeted at promoting deserving police officers has promoted a total of Thirty-One Thousand, Four Hundred and Sixty-Five (31,465) policemen comprising 24,991 from Sergeants to Inspectors, 194 from Corporal to Sergeant, and 6,280 from Constable to Corporal on the basis of competence, qualification and length of service.
This was revealed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi at the headquarters in Abuja.
The IGP charged the affected officers to add more initiative ideas in promoting the lofty principles and values of modern policing as well as in the discharge of their duties as expected of them in line with the provisions of the laws.
Similarly, Baba congratulated two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police on the conferment of national honours on them, AIG Aishatu Abubakar, who was conferred with the award of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), and AIG Olofu Tony Adejoh, who was conferred with the individual award of National Productivity Order of Merit Award (NPOM) by the National Productivity Centre, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment on the approval of the immediate past President.
He further charged the Senior Officers to bring their experience gathered over time and the well-deserved national recognition to bear in their national policing duties.