List of promoted police officers 2022 in the recent Nigeria Police Promotion 2022 can be accessed below.
Truetells Nigeria reports that the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba has approved the promotion of 21,039 junior officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
This online news platform understands that Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi announced the approval in a statement on Thursday, April 14, 2022. The officers on the list of police promotion 2022 were last elevated on or before 2017.
reports that the Nigeria police promotion 2022 comprises:
- 20,572 Sergeants to Inspector
- 324 Corporals to Sergeants
- 143 Constables to Corporal.
The Force Public Relations Officer said it is part of efforts aimed at improving the welfare, and conditions of service and boosting the morale of personnel for greater efficiency.
Truetells Nigeria reports that IGP Baba assured that he remained committed to manpower development to ensure that deserving personnel are rewarded to encourage hard work.
The IGP informed senior police officers that the Force high command is liaising with the Police Service Commission (PSC) on the release of their promotion. He commended the newly-promoted officers for their resilience and charged them to see their new ranks as a call for renewed zeal, vigour and patriotism to duty.
The Nigerian Police
The Nigeria Police Force is the principal law enforcement and the lead security agency in Nigeria. Designated by the 1999 constitution as the national police of Nigeria with exclusive jurisdiction throughout the country, as at 2016 it has a staff strength of about 371,800.
2022 EASTER CELEBRATIONS: IGP FELICITATES WITH THE NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
• Orders Strategic Commanders to Ensure Round-the-Clock Security of the Public Space
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, fdc, in his resolve to ensure crime-free Easter celebrations, has ordered intensive security patrols of all public spaces and critical national assets.
All State Commissioners of Police (CPs) and their supervising Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) have been ordered to ensure adequate deployment of police personnel, and operational assets to areas of security interest within their respective areas of responsibility.
The IGP equally ordered that supervising officers should ensure confidence-boosting, proactive, and high visibility patrols are carried out along the highways, motor parks, train stations, airports, worship centres, recreation centres, banks, and other financial institutions while taking adequate measures to provide a peaceful, crime-free, and enabling environment for religious, cultural and other socio-economic activities to thrive.
In addition, the Commissioners of Police and their supervising AIGs have been directed to ensure proper supervision of the men assigned for these assignments.
They must be professional and courteous to law-abiding citizens but firm and ruthless to criminal elements who might want to take the advantage of the festive period to perpetrate their unholy acts.
To this effect, the IGP Monitoring Unit and X-Squad have been given marching orders to monitor and police activities of police officers policing the highways to ensure respect for the rights of citizens and operational conformity with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Rules of Engagement (RoE) of the Force; the Complaint Response Unit, vis-à-vis Public Complaint Bureau, have equally been charged to respond swiftly to complaints received from the general public.
While felicitating with Nigerians, and the Christian community in particular, on the commemoration of the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the IGP appreciates the citizenry for their support and calls on them to continue to cooperate with the Nigeria Police and other security agencies by providing timely information that would help in the prevention and detection of crime.
Meanwhile An Assistant Superintendent of Police, attached to Shogunle divison in Lagos, Babatunde Adebayo, has been arrested for smoking Indian hemp in public.In a photo that went viral on Sunday, Adebayo was caught on camera, puffing on a wrap of cannabis while he was in a gathering.
The photo was captioned “Nigerian police officer at Ijora Lagos smoking weed on duty.”
In a statement on Tuesday evening, the state police command said the officer had been identified and would face disciplinary action.
The spokesperson for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, had directed that appropriate sanctions be meted out to Adebayo.
The statement read, “The Lagos State Police Command has identified the police officer pictured smoking weed at the Ijora area of Lagos State. He is ASP Babatunde Adebayo serving at Shogunle Divison of the Command.
“Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc, mnim, psc has directed the immediate commencement of appropriate disciplinary measures commensurate with his rank.
“CP Alabi has equally warned officers and men of the Command to stay clear of all unprofessional and unethical conducts as any officer found guilty of these acts will be severely sanctioned.”