SECURITY ALERT WITH JIDE

Police Commissioner threatens to dismiss errant officers.

The new Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Umar Manko, has warned that police personnel found to have been involved in corrupt practices would be dismissed.
Manko who gave the warning in Ikeja during his maiden meeting with newsmen, also said any officer found wanting on his duty post would be redeployed.
Corruption is a major challenge in the Nigeria Police, However, in Lagos State Command, there would be no room for that, as it is going to re-organise the X-Squad Unit.
The X-Squad would be out all the time to monitor officers, I want members of the public to also call the Commissioner through these phone numbers 08034752664 and 08060224385 to report errant officers.
Manko said any officer, who receives bribe, and any person, who gives bribe, would be arrested for prosecution when we ascertained the fact.
The police commissioner, while assuring the people of the state of adequate security, said that officers of the command had no reason to fail since the state government was providing all needed logistics.
Manko said all road blocks in the state had been removed in line with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police.
He urged newsmen to be objective in their reportage of the command.
He also called on traditional rulers in the state to join the community policing and report promptly criminal activities in their domains.
Manko, who was redeployed from the Edo Command, replaced Yakubu Alkali who retired on March 12.
NNPC, Police forge partnership against pipeline vandalism
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has entered into partnership with the Nigeria Police to combat pipeline vandalism.
Its spokesman, Levi Ajuonuma said the partnership would help to end the menace of pipeline vandalism and security threats to key oil and gas facilities.
Ajuonuma said the decision was arrived at a meeting between the NNPC Group Managing Director, Austen Oniwon, and the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, in Abuja.
He quoted Oniwon as saying the alarming cases of pipeline vandalism were posing a threat to the operation in the oil and gas companies in the downstream and upstream sectors.
Ajuonuma said Oniwon called on the Police to assist the NNPC to check the incidence of encroachment of pipeline right of way.
He said the Inspector General pledged the readiness of his officers and men to work with the NNPC to achieve this mandate.
Ajuonuma said Abubakar announced the formation of a Special Police Anti-pipeline Vandalism Squad to protect the vast outlay of oil and gas pipelines.
Lagos Police Command advises bank chiefs to double check their security personnel.
The Lagos State Police Command has advised managers of the various banks to double check their security personnel and ensure that only those with the requisite knowledge about security were employed.
Spokesman for the command, Joseph Jaiyeoba who gave the advice in Lagos said banks that engaged people with no atomic understanding of securing any place or thing ran the risk of having their premises easily breached.
The spokesman said by using men or women with some military or paramilitary experience to secure properties of bank customers, theft would be checkmated adequately.
According to him, there have been frequent complaints by bank customers of losing their property kept in some bank’s entrance lockers.
He said It is sad to note that customers who go to the bank to transact business are dispossessed of their valuables there.
Jaiyeoba said the existence of such a crime around bank premises show the quality of security personnel they employ.
The spokesman urged every bank manager to apply strict screening of those they employ as security men with the support of the police.
He said It is necessary for us to provide a Security Clearance Paper to anyone seeking to work as a security man or woman in any bank.
Jaiyeoba also said bank managers should endeavour to double check those who stood as guarantors to their would-be security personnel.
According to him, In fact, carrying out adequate documentation of every bank’s security personnel will help checkmate the committal of crimes from within.
Jaiyeoba also urged bank staff with their security personnel to be at alert always and question persons loitering around their premises.
He said the less the crime committed within the confines of any bank, the better for its image and for its customer satisfaction.