‘Their actions not in tandem with the values and professional ethics of the Nigeria Police’
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Adegoke Fayoade has ordered the immediate commencement of orderly room trial of the entire team of the police officers seen in a viral video assaulting a suspect that was resisting arrest.
Alausa Division of the Lagos State Police Command, having received numerous complaints on the flagrant abuse of hard drugs on Makinde Odewale Street, Oregun, mobilized some officers to arrest the drug users and dealers. They, however, met stiff resistance leading to serious injury to one Inspector of police, who was stabbed in the head with a broken bottle, and assault on the Olu of Alausa and CDA Chairman. The injured Inspector has since been hospitalized.
Nonetheless, a reinforcement team succeeded in arresting some suspects with substances suspected to be illicit drugs. The reinforcement team, in their bid to ensure the arrest of the mastermind of the attack on the police officer, resorted to what pundits described as unprofessional, unethical and uncouth methods, which were captured on video.
CP Fayoade was reported to have totally condemned the actions of the police officers as according to him, those actions were not in tandem with the values and professional ethics of the Nigeria Police. He equally condemned the actions of the youths in attacking police officers, warning that any person found culpable in this regard would definitely be dealt with in accordance with the law,
The Lagos State Police Command assures Lagosians that the Command would not relent in delivering on its mandates of maintenance of law and order, prevention and detection of crime, apprehension and prosecution of criminals, amongst others.
Permit to say that this CP is a bump, a big nonentity, upon what happened to other men he expected them to go and be begging those guys to follow them?