The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of more than 3,800 senior police officers, with two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs).
The officers promoted include 10 Commissioners of Police (CPs) who attained the rank of AIG, 17 Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) elevated to CP and thousands of other senior officers across various ranks.
The approvals were announced following the commission’s plenary meeting held in Abuja on Thursday under the chairmanship of retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Hashimu Salihu Argungu.
A statement issued by the PSC Head of Protocol and Public Relations, Torty Kalu, said the promotions were based on the officers’ performances in promotion examinations and oral interviews.
The two newly promoted DIGs are Olaolu Adegbite and Dankombo F. Morris.
Adegbite is the head of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja. He previously served as Director of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Morris, who heads Zone 4 Police Headquarters in Makurdi, Benue State, was formerly the Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State.
Those elevated from CP to AIG are Omosanyin Olusegun, Ogbodo Ugobueze, Ohagwu Ndukwe, Taylor Olanrewaju, Regina Udoette, Afolabi Olutokunbo, Nwogoh Martin, Shetima Mohammed, Ibrahim Gotan and Danjuma Iyahaya.
The 17 DCPs promoted to CP include Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Ayeleye Adegboyega E., Isiaka O. Salau, Usman Shaik Adamu, Aminu Maiwada Garba, Abdulkarim Musa Waziri, Muhammad Yusuf Adamu, Sani Adamu Nufawa, Bello M. Adamu, Okezie Chikezie C., Aminu Usman Gusau, Abiodun Onuoha, Salisu Bello Fago, Adegoke A. Alani, Wuwa Auwal Muhammad and Benedict U. Agbo.
At the lower senior ranks, the commission approved the promotion of 85 Assistant Commissioners of Police to DCP, 49 Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners of Police, 245 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents and 498 Deputy Superintendents of Police to Superintendents.
The FCT Police Command spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, was among those promoted from Superintendent of Police to Chief Superintendent of Police.
Other officers in the category include Adamawa Police Command spokesperson Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, Abah James of Rivers State Command, Okere Romanus, Divisional Police Officer of Isiowulu Division in Anambra State, and Ugochukwu Ozoude Alex of the Monitoring Unit, Zone 9, Umuahia.
The commission also approved the promotion of 3,218 Assistant Superintendents of Police to Deputy Superintendents of Police, representing the largest group in the exercise.
Speaking on the promotions, Argungu congratulated the beneficiaries and urged them to justify their elevation through improved professionalism and dedication to duty.
He said the officers should regard their new ranks as an incentive to deliver better service, stressing that greater responsibilities now rested on them, particularly in the protection of lives and property and the enforcement of the law.
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