The Police Service Commission (PSC) has accepted the promotion of greater than 3,800 senior cops, together with two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), ten Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and 17 Commissioners of Police (CPs).
The promotions, accepted on the fee’s plenary assembly in Abuja on Thursday, adopted the profitable completion of promotion examinations and oral interviews performed by the fee.
The assembly was presided over by the PSC Chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu (retd.).
Among the officers elevated to the rank of DIG are AIG Olaolu Adegbite, Head of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, who heads Zone 4 Police Headquarters, Makurdi.
Adegbite, who holds a level in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and a grasp’s diploma in Philology from the Pushkin Institute, Moscow, beforehand served as Director of Operations on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He can also be a recipient of the nationwide honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), a member of the FBI National Academy Associates and an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School.
Morris, who hails from Gombe State, holds a level in History from the University of Maiduguri and a Diploma in Political Science. He beforehand served as Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State earlier than his present posting to Zone 4 Headquarters, Makurdi.
The 10 officers promoted from CP to AIG embrace Omosanyin Olusegun, Commissioner of Police, Administration, FCID Annex, Ikoyi, Lagos; Ogbodo Ugobueze, Commissioner of Police, Anti-Fraud, FCID Annex, Enugu; Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe, CP, Ondo State; and Taylor Lennox Olanrewaju of the Nigeria Police Cooperative.
Others are Regina Cosmas Udoette, CP, General Investigation, FCID Annex, Enugu; Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo, CP, Abia State; Nwogoh Martin, CP, Airwing; Shetima Jauro Mohammed, CP, Nasarawa State; Ibrahim D. Gotan, former CP, Osun State; and Danjuma I. Yahaya, CP, General Investigation, FCID Kaduna.
Seventeen Deputy Commissioners of Police had been additionally elevated to the rank of CP. They embrace Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Ayeleye Adegboyega E., Isiaka O. Salau, Usman Shaik Adamu, Aminu Maiwada Garba and Abdulkarim Musa Waziri.
Others are 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 decrease senior-officer ranks, the fee accepted the promotion of 85 Assistant Commissioners of Police to Deputy Commissioners of Police, 49 Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners, 245 Superintendents to Chief Superintendents and 498 Deputy Superintendents to Superintendents.
The fee additionally accepted the promotion of three,218 Assistant Superintendents of Police to Deputy Superintendents.
Among the 85 officers elevated to DCP are Dr Ruth Oyinmearelu Okunbo, Medical Director of MD Abubakar Police Hospital, Deidei, and ASR Police Reference Hospital, Utako, Abuja; Isah Adejoh of the Police Staff College, Jos; and Mannir Yusuf Gafai of the Kano State Command.
Those promoted to ACP embrace Danjuma Ribah of the Special Forces Unit, Lagos; Peter Ajah Oluohu of the Cross River State Command; Effiom Okon of the Anambra State Command; Emmanuel Kayode of the Lagos State Command; and Mohammed Bello Goshe, Divisional Police Officer of Madalla Division.
Among the officers promoted to CSP are Josephine Adeh, spokesperson for the FCT Police Command; Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, spokesperson for the Adamawa State Police Command; Abah James of the Rivers State Command; and Okere Romanus, Divisional Police Officer of Isiowulu Division, Anambra State.
The newly promoted Superintendents embrace Isa Osu of the Border Patrol Force Headquarters, Abuja; Samaila Amadu Bangajiya of the 12 Police Mobile Force Squadron, Minna; and Akadu Godwin of the Tactical Intelligence Unit on the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
The 3,218 officers promoted to DSP embrace Frank Okafor, a former Chief Security Officer of Jaiz Bank and Intelligence Coordinator at Government House, Uyo; Samson Sule, Chief Security Officer to the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund; and Ibrahim Abuh of the Force Headquarters.
Others embrace Dauda Yusuf Olatunji of the Force Headquarters, Sarauta Mohammed Mohammed of the Force Intelligence Department’s Intelligence Response Team, and Yusuf Mukarram Ado of the Airport Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos.
Congratulating the newly promoted officers, Argungu urged them to treat their elevation as a name to larger duty and improved service supply.
He stated the officers had been anticipated to accentuate their efforts in defending lives and property and imposing the legislation.
The PSC stated the promotions adopted its established evaluation course of, which included examinations and oral interviews.
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