THE Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal and prosecution of two Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP) for misconduct, dishonesty, corruption, sabotage and acts unbecoming of public Officers.
The Commission also approved the reduction in ranks of six other Officers on related offences.
The Officers include two Superintendents of Police reduced to the rank of Deputy Superintendents, one Deputy Superintendent reduced to the rank of Assistant Superintendent and three Assistant Superintendents now Inspectors.
This was contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the Police Service Commission, Ikechukwu Ani, and made available to News Point Nigeria on Monday.
He said that these decisions were highpoints of the concluding stages of the Commission’s second Plenary Meeting which held at its Corporate Headquarters in Jabi, Abuja.
He noted that the Commission also approved a punishment of severe reprimand on ten senior Police Officers found guilty of unauthorised disclosure of official secret, dishonesty, sabotage and conduct unbecoming of senior Police Officers.
Another nine senior officers were said to have been given punishment of Reprimand while a Deputy Commissioner of Police was found not guilty and exonerated and a letter of warning was served on an Assistant Superintendent of Police.
According to the statement, the Commission had earlier treated recommendations on Police Promotions and promoted several senior Police Officers.
These include eleven Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police; 16 Deputy Commissioners of Police to Commissioners; 21 Assistant Commissioners to Deputy Commissioners; 57 Chief Superintendents to Assistant Commissioners and 1348 Superintendents to Chief Superintendents which included Obi-Ejoh Nnamdi Patrick, former Commander Anti-Narcotics section, FCT Command, now serving at Kaduna Command and Milicent Amadi, Officer in Charge of Surveillance, State CID Ebonyi state Command.
Others were 876 Deputy Superintendents promoted to Superintendents, and which also included the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO for Enugu State Command, Daniel Ndukwe.
Chairman of the Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu, was quoted to have said that the Commission will ensure that Nigeria’s Police Officers must be disciplined to effectively carry out their constitutional responsibility of enforcing the law and protecting lives and property.
DIG Argungu noted that the Commission will accord Pending Disciplinary Matters (PDM) the required attention so that no Police Officer is unduly stagnated.
The decisions have since been conveyed to the Inspector General of Police for implementation in a letter signed by Secretary to the Commission, Onyemuche Nnamani.