Niger: Police ban land cases, restrict tactical units in major internal reforms

The Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, CP Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, has issued a sweeping directive tightening operational conduct, curbing maltreatment of authority, and enforcing strict adherence to law policing standards crossed the command.

The directive was handed down during the command’s end-of-month strategical league held astatine the Police Officers’ Mess, Minna, attended by Heads of Departments, Area Commanders, Tactical Commanders, and Divisional Police Officers.

Elleman utilized the gathering to reenforce Inspector-General of Police directives connected professionalism, discipline, quality rights compliance, and zero tolerance for corruption, informing officers against incivility, maltreatment of office, and mediocre supervision of personnel.

A cardinal item of the directive was the outright prohibition connected constabulary engagement successful onshore quality cases.

The Commissioner stressed that officers indispensable desist from handling ownership disputes, describing them arsenic strictly civilian matters to beryllium determined by competent courts.

Elleman, however, clarified that constabulary whitethorn lone intervene wherever wide transgression elements specified arsenic forgery, transgression trespass, oregon malicious harm are established.

He further warned that unlawful oregon prolonged detention of suspects without tribunal authorisation volition not beryllium tolerated, reminding officer...