182 newly trained and deployed police constables have assumed duties at the Imo State Command, Owerri.
They passed out recently from the Police Training School, Nekede, Owerri West Local Government Council of the state, after successfully completing their basic training.
Receiving the officers yesterday at the command’s premises, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, represented by the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, charged them to uphold ethical conduct, discipline, and community-oriented policing.
He congratulated them for their perseverance during the drilling period, urging them to be law-abiding and exhibit professionalism as they discharge their duties henceforth, including accepting postings to any station the command deploys them to.
The IGP directed them to “embrace grassroots Community-Oriented Policing, which emphasises grassroots security and stronger collaboration between the Police and members of the public.”
He warned that the authorities of the Police Force would not tolerate indiscipline, misconduct, or unethical practices, urging them to be good ambassadors of the Force, upholding the “core values of integrity, fairness, and service to humanity.”
Egbetokun assured Imo people that the deployment of new constables to the various units in the 27 local councils of the state would strengthen the security architecture in all nooks and crannies, adding that they would work in partnership with sister security agencies in maintaining peace and public safety.
Meanwhile, three police officers from the Imo State Police Command, who were identified in a viral video displaying unprofessional conduct, have been arrested.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aboki Danjuma, had directed an investigation into the video, the identification of officers, their arrest, and the commencement of an orderly room trial.
A statement issued around 6.48 p.m. on Saturday (today) by the command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, disclosed that the three officers had been arrested, adding that an orderly room trial would commence on Monday.
The statement read: “Further to the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, ordering a thorough investigation into the viral video showing officers engaged in unprofessional conduct, the Command wishes to provide the following update.
“The officers captured in the viral video have been identified as:
“Inspector Obinna Peter (AP/No. 346264); Corporal Amaechi Augustine (F/No. 528171); Corporal Ejikeme Victor (F/No. 528279).”
The statement stressed that the policeman had been consigned to detention, while a thorough investigation was going on to ascertain their level of involvement in cultism and other related activities.
