IGP Disu decorates 29 senior police officers with new ranks, hands them three charges

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Olatunji Rilwan Disu, has decorated 29 elder constabulary officers with their caller ranks, urging them to show integrity, accountability and professionalism successful the discharge of their duties.

The decoration ceremony, held connected Tuesday, progressive 2 Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, 10 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIGs, and 17 Commissioners of Police, CPs.

Speaking astatine the event, Disu reminded the recently promoted officers that promotion should not beryllium seen simply arsenic an accomplishment oregon reward but arsenic an accidental to enarthrosis greater responsibilities.

He stressed that higher ranks travel with accrued expectations and accountability, noting that the officers would beryllium intimately monitored by their subordinates, the communities they service and the Nigerian public.

Addressing the promotees, the IGP said, "Higher fertile brings higher accountability, and the unit and the Nigerian radical volition clasp you to it. I retrieve the time I received a caller rank, the thought that stayed with maine was not 'I person arrived.' It was 'now everybody is watching.' Today you basal wherever I erstwhile stood."

Disu outlined 3 large responsibilities for the recently promoted officers, identifying integrity, the payment and improvement of personnel, and nationalist spot arsenic the cardinal pillars of effectual leadership.

On integrity, helium called for zero tolerance for corruption, maltreatment of bureau and indiscipline, urging the officers to pb by illustration alternatively than enforce s...