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No fewer than 18 police personnel have been sacked from the Nigerian Police Force within three months.<\/div>\n
\nPointblanknews com gathered that in addition to these, ten others were also demoted from their current ranks for various offenses.<\/div>\n
\nIt was learnt that in October 2022, the Police Service Commission (PSC) dismissed seven senior police officers over alleged gross misconduct and approved the demotion of 10 other officers.<\/p>\n

The PSC said the sacked officers included a Chief Superintendent of Police, one Superintendent of Police, and five Assistant Superintendents of Police. It added that one SP was retired in the public interest.<\/p>\n

The commission also reduced the ranks of a CSP to SP, three SPs to DSPs, two DSPs to ASPs, and four ASPs to Inspectors.<\/p>\n

On December 22, 2022, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Berde, disclosed that his command dismissed seven police officers for fragrant abuse of police standard practice.<\/p>\n

The NPF, on April 13, 2023, dismissed three senior policemen over misuse of firearms, abuse of power, gross indiscipline, and wastage of live ammunition.<\/p>\n

The dismissed officers include Inspector Dahiru Shuaibu, Sergeants Abdullahi Badamasi, and Isah Danladi \u2013 formerly attached to a Kano musician as escorts caught on video shooting into the air.<\/p>\n

The Delta State Police Command, on April 19, 2023, dismissed Inspector Ubi Ebri for allegedly killing a 26-year-old man, Onyeka Ibe, along Ugbolu-Illah Road in Asaba for allegedly refusing to give a bribe of N100.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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