CP Sikiru Akande, who is the Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, has asked all vehicle users with the plate numbers to return all spy plate numbers to the police state headquarters in Yola.
A press statement which had been signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Suleiman Nguroje, had also indicated that the order is a move which would be used to enforce the Inspector General of Police’s ban on the use of spy vehicle numbers across the country.
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The Adamawa State PPRO said CP Akande will not allow violators of the order or condone misguided elements who may insist on the use of the spy numbers.
The statement said the police and other security agents will confiscate such numbers from anyone found using them.
“The police boss further directs divisional police officers, operational commanders and their supervisory Area Commanders to immediately enforce the order,” the statement said. It had also added that a task force that comprises all security agents will be going around to ensure compliance.
In another report, the police command in Lagos State have also cast their security net after some unscrupulous Point of Sale (POS) operators who ply their trade near stations in a bid to aid extortion and swindling.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin who is the Public Relations Officer, made the disclosure in a Twitter post.
The police observed that those in the business specialize in hanging around police stations. Investigations found that customers are innocent Nigerians being extorted by some recalcitrant personnel.
“Their presence around the stations has made the extortion game a lot easier”, the command complained.
Nothing that the force continually purges itself of bad officers, the police said was high time POS operators were regulated.
Hundeyin added that the action was “in line with the mandate of not just detecting but also preventing crime”.
“To this end, anyone found to have knowingly enabled extortion will be treated as an accomplice”, the PRO said.
In another report, some of the security operatives of the Kwara Police Command have rescued a Chinese national who had been abducted by gunmen on the 3rd of July at a construction site on Shao-Oloru Expressway.
Police spokesman SP Ajayi Okasanmi had also made this disclosure on Friday.