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The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has ordered a ban on the indiscriminate use of siren, revolving lights, tinted glasses and Police Supernumerary plate numbers by unauthorised persons.
Abubakar in a statement on Sunday, said police officers have been directed to ensure strict enforcement of all extant laws regulating their usage.
He said the new order followed security reports which indicate that criminals evading arrest now hide under the cover of official privileges and courtesies associated with the use of sirens, revolving lights and Supernumerary plate numbers.
The IG has therefore directed all Zonal Assistant Inspectors-General and Commissioners of Police to ensure that all violators of the laws within are arrested and brought to book.
Abubakar said SPY plate numbers were only to be used on operational vehicles of banks and companies so assigned and should not be used by private persons (VIPs and Executives of corporate organisations) under any guise whatsoever.
He advised motorists to immediately remove from their vehicles all unlawfully procured revolving lights, sirens, tinted glasses and SPY plate numbers.
“We wish to state that the Nigeria Police Force can no longer fold its arms and allow few Nigerians turn our highways into dangerous and lawless theatre – harassing, intimidating and endangering the lives and property of other road users through the reckless and indiscriminate use of sirens,” the IG said.
Meanwhile, Police Force has changed its mode of investigations and handling of terrorism cases in the country preferring to be more discreet about terror suspects and the quantity of information released to the public.
It was learnt that the force has decided to minimise release of information on criminal and terror cases to the media to avoid jeopardising the investigation into such matters.
Release of information is also believed to put informants and police sources at risks.
A source told our correspondent that the Force Headquarters favoured release of information on terror suspects on a ‘need-to-know’ basis following the embarrassment the police suffered in the aftermath of the escape of a Boko Haram operative, Kabir Sokoto.
Culled from The Punch.
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