The Police Service Commission (PSC) has authorized the dismissal of three senior police officers and the demotion of 16 others over misconduct.
The fee’s spokesperson, Torty Kalu, disclosed this in an announcement on Wednesday, including that the PSC additionally authorized “severe reprimands” for 21 officers and “ordinary reprimands” for 2 others.
Three officers have been exonerated, whereas some beforehand suspended officers have been reinstated into the Nigeria Police Force, Mr Kalu said.
He stated the choices have been reached on the fee’s plenary assembly held at its headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday. The assembly was presided over by the fee’s chairman, Hashimu Argungu, a retired deputy inspector-general of police.
The fee didn’t disclose the identities of the dismissed and demoted officers or present particulars of the particular misconduct established in opposition to them.
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However, the fee’s spokesperson said that Mr Argungu reaffirmed the PSC’s zero-tolerance stance on corruption, human rights abuses, interference in land and civil issues, and different types of misconduct inside the police.
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Mr Argungu additionally “assured” the general public that the fee would proceed to make sure the speedy decision of disciplinary circumstances earlier than it.
He recommended members of the fee’s Standing Committee on Discipline and Legal Matters and different officers for his or her work in reviewing disciplinary circumstances and appeals.
PREMIUM TIMES stories that the PSC is the authorized physique saddled with the promotion and self-discipline of senior police officers throughout Nigeria.
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