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This is just as the anti-graft agency has started the implementation of the report of Salami-led panel which proposed that police officers should stay away from heading the commission whether at the headquarters or at the zonal level.
It was learnt that zonal heads of the EFCC, who are police officers are now returning back to the police force. A source informed Daily Trust that all police officers holding key positions in the commission would return to the force.
”There is no doubt again that all the police officers holding key positions in EFCC would go back to the Nigerian Police Force. Most of them are senior officers and I think an order has come from the Presidency to that effect,” the source said.
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Baba gave the order on Thursday in Abuja at the opening of a conference of Police Strategic Commanders, consisting of officers with the rank of Commissioner of Police (CP) and above.
The I-G also ordered the streamlining of the personnel profile of the I-G Monitoring Unit at the Force Headquarters to not more than 50 operatives.
The police boss announced the banning of the unit from undertaking criminal investigations, including taking over of cases from Police Commands in States.
According to him, under the current dispensation, the unit will only operate within their original mandate, to investigate complaints of alleged professional infractions against serving officers.
Baba, shortly after he was decorated by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
For the New Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, his appointment isnât a tea party, writes Olawale Olaleye
The appointment and subsequent decoration of officer Usman Alkali Baba as the nationâs new inspector general of police is not one to attract envy. Landing such a good job at a rather inauspicious time is no less a delicate balance, which of course, declines all the flashes and pizzas, given a different epoch.
Perhaps, Baba is not unawares of his current job description, not as a police officer per se, but as one, who has just been handed the most unattractive assignment of securing an âuncivil populationâ. Heâd acknowledged the state of Imo State and admitted there was a need for clean-up in the Southeast state.
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The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Usman Alkali Baba, on Friday, met with Police Strategic Commanders, Zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police, Commissioners of Police, and Deputy Commissioners of Police (Operations), in the South-South and the South-Eastern States of the country and tasked them on checkmating security challenges.
A statement by CP Frank Mba, For e Public Relations Officer said the meeting, which held at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, is part of efforts by the new Police leadership to critically diagnose the security threats in the region and evolve new policing strategies and responses towards tackling the threats.