PSC Promotes Over 3,800 Police Officers To New Ranks

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of more than 3,800 senior police officers, including two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), ten Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and 17 Commissioners of Police (CPs).

The promotions, approved at the commission’s plenary meeting in Abuja on Thursday, followed the successful completion of promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the commission.

The meeting 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 degree in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and a master’s degree in Philology from the Pushkin Institute, Moscow, previously served as Director of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He is also a recipient of the national 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 degree in History from the University of Maiduguri and a Diploma in Political Science. He previously served as Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State before his current posting to Zone 4 Headquarters, Makurdi.

The 10 officers promoted from CP to AIG include 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 were also elevated to the rank of CP. They include 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 lower senior-officer ranks, the commission approved 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 commission also approved the promotion of 3,218 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 include 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 include 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 at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.

The 3,218 officers promoted to DSP include 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 include 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 regard their elevation as a call to greater responsibility and improved service delivery.

He said the officers were expected to intensify their efforts in protecting lives and property and enforcing the law.

The PSC said the promotions followed its established assessment process, which included examinations and oral interviews.