PSC Promotes 1,897 Senior Police Officers, Galadanci now DIG

•14CPs elevated AIG, 21 DCPs promoted to rank of CP

Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja

The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday approved the appointment of AIG Dasuki Galadanci, AIG in charge of Zone 12 Bauchi as a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) to represent the North-west geo-political zone of the country.

He will replace DIG Ibrahim Sani Ka’oje  who is expected to retire by February 2.

The commission also approved the promotion of 1,897 senior police officers  to their next substantive ranks.

The commission  elevated 14 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police. However, one of the commissioners for promotion  to AIG was stepped down to enable the commission  review the pending disciplinary matters against the officer which was sent to the commission by the Nigeria Police Force.

The new AIGs are: Yetunde O. Longe, CP Eastern Ports, Port Harcourt; Haruna Gabriel Garba, CP Federal Capital Territory; Tajudeen Akinwale Abass, CP Delta State;   Rex Dundun, CP General Investigation, FCID Annex Kaduna;  Durosinmi Olatoye, CP Akwa Ibom State;  Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi, CP Adamawa State and Abiodun Oladimeji Asabi, CP Ondo State.

Others are  CP  Julius Alawari Okoro; CP Plateau State;  George Chijioke Chuku, CP Benue State; Paul Alifa Omata, CP K9 Force Headquarters; Yusuf Adesina Akeem, CP Research and Development, Force Headquarters; Bzigu Yakabu kwazhi Dali, CP Osun State;  Idris Nagoyo, Police Mounted troop Squadron and CP Ogundare Dare Emmanuel, Cp Ekiti State.

The commission also promoted 21 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the substantive rank of Commissioners; 20 Assistant Commissioners to Deputy Commissioners,  109 Chief Superintendents to Assistant Commissioners  and 184 Superintendents to Chief Superintendents.

It also considered and approved the promotion  of 1,549  Assistant Superintendents to Deputy Superintendents.

A statement issued by the Spokesman of the commission Ikechukwu Ani, said Chairman of the commission, Solomon Arase, who presided over the management meeting of the commission has accordingly given anticipatory approval for the appointment  of one DIG and promotion  of  1,897 senior Police Officers recommended to the commission by the Inspector-General of police.

The 14 commissioners of police and 21 deputy commissioners  appeared before the management of the commission for an interactive promotion interview, a condition precedent for their elevation to the next ranks.

Arase at the interactive session  charged the officers to quickly settle down to their new ranks and go forth and win the war against banditry, kidnapping and violent crimes in the country.

He said the nation was facing an avoidable unprecedented wave of criminal assaults on all fronts and said the commission was uncomfortable with the trend of events.

The PSC chairman enjoined the officers to settle down and map their various areas of responsibility by being conversant with trends and patterns of crimes in their domain and should be able to engage in predictive policing to mitigate the current criminal disorders by criminal gangs now mauruding  across the length and breadth of the country.

As senior officers, he said they must be held responsible for any relapse in the security apparatus of the nation adding that they must see their new ranks as a call to greater dedication to the service of their fatherland.

“These promotions should further ignite the indomitable fighting spirit of the officers and men”, he admonished the newly promoted officers.

The Deputy Commissioners promoted to the next rank of substantive commissioners are; Olanrewaju  Peter Ogunlowo, Assistant  Chief of Mission in Somalia; Mohammed  Dahiru, DCP State CID Adamawa; Sunday Olukayode,  DCP Operations, Plateau State; Peter Ukachi Opara, DCP Admin, Imo State; Illiyasu Yahaya Kwarbai, DCP investagion Zonal Command Bauchi and Bello Mohammed Sani, DCP Projects Monitoring, IGP Secretariat.

Others Mohammed  Umar Abba, DCP State CID, Delta Command; Dankombo Faling Morris, DCP Ops Adamawa  Command; Bello Shehu, National Defence College; Ibrahim Balarabe Maikaba; DCP Zonal CID Kano; Ahmed Musa, DCP  State CID, FCT Cmd, Olohundare Moshood Jimoh, former Force Public Relations Officer and currently DCP General Investigation  Unit, FCID Annex, Gombe; Simeon Udofia Akpanudom, DCP Ops Cross Rivers State Command; Olugbemiga Emmanuel Adesina, DCP Benue State Command and David Iloyanomon, DCP Administration. Anambra Command.