BREAKING: PSC promotes 78 senior police officers

The Police Service Commission on Tuesday, promoted 78 additional senior police officers.

The commission had, on Monday, approved the promotion of 11 Commissioners of Police to Assistant Inspectors General and 16 Deputy Commissioners to Commissioners of Police.

The 78 officers promoted on Tuesday, according to a statement by the PSC spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, comprised 21 Assistant Commissioners of Police who were elevated to the rank of Deputy Commissioners, and 57 Chief Superintendents to Assistant Commissioners.

“The second plenary meeting of the present Police Service Commission entered Day Two today, Tuesday, December 17, 2024 with the promotion of another 78 senior police officers.

“The commission, in plenary, approved the promotion of 21 Assistant Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners and 57 Chief Superintendents to Assistant Commissioners.

“The new commissioners also included former DCP Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, DCP Admin and Finance, Jigawa State Command. “He was the immediate past Head of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Monitoring Unit and was once, Deputy Commissioner Operations, Zone 7, Abuja,” the statement partly read.

Ani said elevated officers were subjected to written and oral examinations.

“During the oral interview, issues such as problems of logistics and manpower were identified as one of the manifest handicaps in most of the Police Departments, Zones, States, Areas and Divisional Commands.

“The officers pleaded that such issues should be attended to in the overall interest of the functionality of the Nigeria Police Force,” he added.

The Assistant Commissioners of Police elevated to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners were, Christopher Uweh, Area Commander, Ihiala, Anambra state; Abdulrahaman Usman, AC Ops, Zone 2 Lagos; Baba Alhaji, Area Commander, Agbara, Ogun State; Aminu Aliyu, Commander 59 PMF Bajoga; Salau Jimoh, Area Commander Ikole Ekiti; Mohammed Musa, BPU, Kwara State; Makuliso Umar, Area Commander Kontagora, Niger State; Shaibu Bello, INEC Headquarters, Abuja; Lawrence Iwodi, Area Commander Ayetoro, Ogun State; Arabia Mohammed, DFA, Nasarawa State; Ali Agbo, Welfare, Force Headquarters Abuja; Halilu Muawiyah Commander 51 PMF Oghara; Sani Ahmed, Area Commander, Gusau, Zamfara State, Ado Ibrahim, SCID, Delta State Command; Abubakar Ardo, Commander 35 PMF, Dutse; and Mohammed Modibbo, Assistant Director OPS, North Central zone.

Others are Yusuf S. Taiwo, Area Commander Ilesha, Osun State and Bashiru Abdullahi, Area Commander, Tambuwal, Sokoto State. Ahmadu Bello Garba, DFA, Zone 4 Makurdi; Paul Dung, State CID, Enugu; and David Nonyelum Osuani; Area Commander Ogidi, Anambra state, were also promoted to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners of Police.

The 57 Chief Superintendents of Police promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioners of Police include Ezeala Daniel Ezeala, Tamarauebi Timpa, and Toyin Ahmed Sulyman. DPO, Abacha Road, Mararaba Plateau State; Mohammed Sani Abubakar; Marcus Michael Tarfa Interpol FCIID, Abuja; Uba Shehu; Elijah Eleke; John Inyang; Ochomo ThankGod; Abimbola Tokunbo Abaniwonda; Oluseyi Olabisi Cletus-Ilobanafor; Ahmed Usman Muhammed; Okezie Daniel Iroakazi; Emeka Emmanuel Adigwe; Suraju Kehinde Oyewole; Abubakar Yusuf; Hassan Khalil Ibrahim; William Robinson Odumu, DPO Anambra State and Glory Gabriel Otonko, Force Intelligence Bureau, Enugu State.

Alex Sani Gwazah, Matilda Ugowe, Hamman Aminu and Aboyemi Gbenga were also some of the CSPs promoted to ACPs.