•Report by Hallimah Olamide
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has approved the deployment of former Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole to head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) X-Squad at its Annex in Lagos State.
“The IGP tasked the new CP X-Squad(Bankole) to deploy all requisite assets in ensuring sanity, professional standards and discipline in all ramifications,” the Force PPRO, Olumuyiwa Adejobi said in a statement released on Friday
According to the statement,the IGP also approved the posting of CP Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to the Adamawa State Police Command as its new Commissioner of Police pending approval of the Police Service Commission.
Adejobi stressed that the deployments were part of the force’s effort to achieve the maximum impact of community-based and strategic policing.
“While the posting of CP Adebola A. Hamzat, has been varied to Commissioner of Police in charge of the Border Patrol Force, Force Headquarters,Abuja.
“The IGP has therefore charged the senior police officers to effectively apply their wealth of experiences to improving existing structural arrangements towards achieving a citizen-focused and community-oriented policing system.
“He also called for support and cooperation from members of the public to enable the newly posted senior officers to perform optimally on their mandate.
“The posting is with immediate effect,”the statement read