Policemen on domestic errands or escorting unauthorised persons will be arrested- Mike Okiro

Former Inspector General of Police, and current Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mike Okiro, yesterday said that policemen found on domestic errand or escorting unauthorised persons will be arrested.

Okiro stated this in Abuja yesterday, January 13, while addressing some critical issues concerning the Nigeria Police Force. He said the the Police Service Commission has worked out a blueprint spelling out the duties of police officers attached to Very Important Personalities (VIPs) and that officers doing domestic job would not be tolerated anymore.

“The issue of policemen performing domestic duties, as you can all agree with me, has generated much uproar and even condemnation as it is capable of eroding the public esteem of members of the NPF. To stem the tide, we have worked out a blueprint of the class of VIPs that should enjoy the privilege of attaching police officers to provide VIP protection with their specific duties clearly spelt out. The matter is awaiting the consent of the relevant authorities, before we can start its implementation. This policy is very critical and is aimed at shoving up, the professionalism of the Police Force and rekindles the high respect the police deserve in the public eye cum image.”he said

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Police charge 15-year-old girl for killing mother, mother’s boyfriend

 

Police have charged a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl with the murders of her mother and mother’s boyfriend, saying she left the bodies in their Sheepshead Bay apartment for days and even went out partying one night.

Destiny Garcia has been charged as an adult with two counts of second degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of weapon, the abc7 has reported. Detectives said she confessed to the murders during questioning.

Police identified the victims Monday as 38-year-old Rosie Sanchez and her boyfriend 40-year-old Anderson Nunez.

The two were found at about 6.30pm inside their apartment on Batchelder Street in the Sheepshead Bay Houses.

Police said their bodies had been been in the apartment since last Sunday, December 27, and that Garcia lived in the apartment with them.

IG Replaces Military Roadblocks with Police Highway Patrols

IG Solomon Arase

Yemi Akinsuyi in Abuja

The Inspector General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase, has said he has immediately deployed highway patrol vehicles to fill in the vacuum created with the Monday’s presidential order for dismantling of military roadblocks on highways in the country.

Arase made this known yesterday during a one-day stakeholders consultative forum on improving police response to sexual and gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming,  where he disclosed that in addition to over 300 patrol vehicles recently deployed to the roads, another 157 highway patrol vehicles are ready for deployment on the roads.

The police boss who submitted that the police would need the prompt collaboration of the public to prevent crimes and criminality, however, affirmed that the Nigerian military could still be called upon to assist in security whenever the need arises.

He noted that the police had already taken strides to ensure that the force protects the interest of their female folks and improved response time to gender and sexual violence.

According to him, one of the repugnant policies he found in the police was the law which said a female officer could only marry after she had served a number of years in the force while their male counterparts could get married right from the police college.

He affirmed that steps were being taken to correct all such anomalies.

“If the men can marry from the police training schools, why can’t the women?” he queried.

In her remarks, an Assistant Commissioner of Police and gender adviser, ACP Olabisi Kolawole, stressed that the creation of the gender unit of the force has inspired female police personnel to equally aspire to great heights along with their male counterparts.

She called on stakeholders in gender issues to rally round the police force in terms of capacity building for personnel deployed to the office and provision of the necessary tools for efficiency
The Executive Director, CLEEN Foundation, an NGO with particular interest in police growth and development, Mrs. Kemi Okenyodo, in her remarks, applauded the police for the giant strides in the area of gender equity in the force.

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Source:thisdaylive

Thousands of Escaped Piglets Are on the Run in Ohio

 Thousands of piglets are apparently roaming, free and proud, across Ohio’s fair highway shoulders

The squishy little piglets managed to escape the farm, so to speak, when the driver of a semi transporting them—to their death, it should be noted—crashed on U.S. Route 35.

Volunteers have joined the police in their search efforts, I would presume, by checking known pig hangouts like the market, home, and places where roast beef is sold.

Cops ask that residents who spot any rogue piglets call authorities immediately.

 Lolz this story sounds funny tho. Pigs indeed 

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