Date Published: 09/14/10

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Profile of Inspector general of police, Hafiz Ringim

IG Hafiz Ringim

Hafiz Abubakar Ringim was born in Ringim Local Govt Area of Jigawa State on the 1st of April, 1953. A holder of an Advanced Diploma in Public Administration, IGP Ringim joined the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Inspector on 1st March, 1977 and had his first stint of active police work in Kano, from 1978 to 1979, from where he was posted to the foremost investigative arm of the Force, the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon Close, Ikoyi Lagos. From the FCID, he was deployed to head the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB) in Plateau State, with the rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police.

As an agile and vibrant officer, he was given command of the 9th Police Mobile Force (PMF) Squadron, in Kano. At the birth of the defunct National Guard, he featured actively as a Recruitment Officer and was later given command of the North-West Zone. At the cessation of the National Guard, he was deployed as Commandant of the elite Police Mobile Force Training College in Maiduguri, and took part in all the rigorous activities in the rough-and-tough Gwoza Camp. As an Assistant Commissioner of Police, he remained as Commandant from 1994 to 1997, and on promotion to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police, he was posted to Interpol section of the Force CID, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos as Second-in-Command. He later assume command of the Interpol Section as Commissioner of Police.

As a Commissioner of Police, IGP Hafiz A. Ringim headed the following Police Commands Adamawa, Osun and Bayelsa States. In 2005, he proceeded to the prestigious National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru and on graduation was admitted to the elite membership of the National Institute, (mni). On promotion to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police in 2006, he was first posted as Commandant of the highest Police training institution, the Police Staff College, in Jos, and later as the AIG in-charge of Border Patrol. On 28th August 2009, he was posted as AIG in-charge of Zone 9 Police Command that oversees police activities in Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo States.

On the 8th day of September, 2010, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, NPM, mni was appointed by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, as the 15th indigenous Inspector-General of Police, in acting capacity.

Acting IGP Hafiz Ringim’s hobbies are farming and jogging. His marriage is blessed with