The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the provisional posting of Commissioner of Police (CP) Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to the Adamawa State Police Command as its new Commissioner of Police pending approval of the Police Service Commission while the posting of CP Adebola A. Hamzat, has been varied to Commissioner of Police in charge of the Border Patrol Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
GP said the development is in an effort to achieve maximum impact of community-based and strategic policing on the society. Similarly, according to a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, CP Lanre Bankole Sikiru, the former CP Ogun State, has been posted to head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) X-Squad at its Annex in Lagos State. The IGP has tasked the new CP X-Squad to deploy all requisite assets in ensuring sanity, professional standards and discipline in all ramifications.
The police boss charged the senior police officers to effectively apply their wealth of experiences to improving existing structural arrangements towards achieving a citizen-focused and community-oriented policing system. He also called for support and cooperation from members of the public to enable the newly posted senior officers to perform optimally on their mandate. The posting, Adejobi said, is with immediate effect.
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