Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar
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threat by officers and men of the Imo State Police Command to go on
strike over their posting to troubled states of the north has attracted
public anger and calls for sanctions.
The PUNCH learnt on Thursday that
some of the policemen refusing their redeployment had spent between 18
and 20 years in the Imo State Police Command.
A retired Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav, said that the affected policemen should be punished for indiscipline...............
Tsav, a onetime CP in Lagos State, who
spoke to one of our correspondents in a telephone interview said the
threat was a demonstration of the high level of indiscipline currently
bedevilling the Force.
He attributed the dwindling level of discipline to the undue interference in operational matters of the police by politicians.
Men of the Imo State Police Command had
kicked against their redeployment to some northern states for fear that
they might be killed by members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
They had therefore threatened to embark
on strike next month if the transfer of officers, numbering about 100
from the cadre of Inspectors, Assistant Superintendent of Police and the
Chief Superintendent of Police to the troubled areas in the North was
not reversed by the police high command.
The former Lagos State CP said the policemen should be dismissed from service.
He said, “The government has already
politicised the police and so they are undisciplined. The threat of
strike should have been punished with instant dismissal.
“The policemen in the north also have
families. The Presidency is the cause of this as is the case in Rivers
State where a DPO blocked the state governor.
“The policemen are just not
disciplined. I remember when I was in service, they posted me to Abia as
Commissioner of Police, I reported there the next morning but another
transfer came for me to go to Lagos and I went back.”
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