Four senior Police Officers have been dismissed over cases of serious misconduct and acts unbecoming of public officers. Two Officers were reduced in rank while punishments of severe reprimand and reprimand were handed out to 4 other officers.
These decisions were taken at the just concluded 10th plenary meeting presided over by the Chairman of the Commission, Retired Inspector General of Police, Musiliu Smith on Friday.
According to the statement signed by Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, a Chief Superintendent of Police was dismissed for discreditable conduct, dishonesty and act unbecoming of a public officer while a Superintendent of Police was dismissed for conspiring with four others to vandalize a transformer and stealing. The Commission also directed the the officer be prosecuted.
A deputy superintendent of Police who 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 was dismissed. The dismissed officer did not make entries neither did he give any situation report of the arrest. He also raised a fake letter purporting to escort the vehicles and suspects to Lagos with dubious intention of ensuring their unlawful release but luck ran out on them when they were intercepted at a Military checkpoint. When the soldiers on duty insisted on verifying the contents of the truck, the DSP and his men abandoned the truck and fled.
Also, an Assistant Superintendent of Police was dismissed for misappropriation, an action prejudicial to the security of the state ; sabotage ; dishonesty and act unbecoming of a public officer.
The Commission also treated several appeals and petitions