Ogun police begin ‘Operation Velvet’, warn officers against extortion, harassment

Ogun State Police Command has reactivated Operation VELVET crossed the 20 section authorities areas of the state, informing that immoderate serviceman caught extorting oregon intimidating motorists volition look disciplinary action.

The operation, directed by the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Rilwan Disu, is portion of renewed intelligence-led strategies to enforce postulation regulations and guarantee escaped vehicular movement.

The command’s spokesperson, DSP Oluseyi Babaseyi, said successful a connection on Thursday that the cognition would people one-way driving, reckless driving, unauthorised sirens, vehicles with fake oregon covered fig plates, unlicensed drivers, overloading and indiscriminate parking.

“Operation VELVET indispensable ne'er service arsenic a pretext for extortion, amerciable detention, harassment oregon unauthorised impoundment,” Babaseyi stated.

He noted that the Commissioner of Police, CP Bode Ojajuni, had ordered Area Commanders, DPOs and Unit Heads to guarantee strict compliance, adding that supervisory officers would beryllium held liable for the behaviour of their men.

He warned that immoderate unit recovered blameworthy of bribery, intimidation oregon nonrecreational misconduct would look contiguous disciplinary enactment nether the Police Regulations.

He added that the CP had besides instructed that each deployed unit beryllium decently briefed and intimately monitored to gu...