CAMP PALAVA: WITH EVIDENCE AVAILABLE, NIGERIA POLICE INSISTS NO OFFICER DESERTED, DISMISSED

The police spokesman in a statement on Friday claimed that, the signal said to confirmed the dismissal of the policemen was fake and forged, which did not emanate from the office of the Inspector General of Police

‘The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to a story attaching a forged counterfeit list of 121 Police officers purportedly dismissed from the service of the Nigeria Police Force.  No Police officer has been dismissed among the 2000 Police Mobile Force (PMF) personnel deployed to the North East’, the statement said.

Police officers and men found wanting in any way in the discharge of their statutory duties go through internal disciplinary procedures and if found guilty are either dismissed from the Force or given commensurate punishment(s)’.

The statement added, ’In this case, no officer was tried in orderly trial for any offence (disciplinary or otherwise) that will warrant dismissal from the Force and none was dismissed. For avoidance of doubt, the Inspector General of Police did not order the dismissal of 121 police officers as claimed’

The pronouncement of dismissal of Police officers from the Force to the public is the responsibility of the Force Public Relations Officer and not that of the writer of the story.  The Nigeria Police Force is assuring the Media of a continuous cooperation in guaranteeing public safety and security across the Country, however, it is important for Premium Times Online Publishers to consider National Security and public interest as paramount above sensational publications.