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The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the deployment of 37 Police Commissioners to State Commands and the Federal Capital Territory.
Chairman, PSC, Mr. Mike Okiro, said the deployment was to reinvigorate the State Commands for more effective and efficient policing.
Former FPRO, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, has been deployed to Kogi.
Others are J. Habila (Abia), Adejo Gabriel Adaji (Adamawa), Muritala U. Mani, Akwa Ibom, Karma Hosea (Anambra), Mohammed K. Mohammed, (Bauchi) and P. Okafor (Bayelsa), Dibai P. Yakadi, (Benue), J. Opadokun (Borno), Henry Fadairo (Cross River), Usman Bala Alkali (Delta), P Abdalla (Ebonyi), Chris Ezike (Edo), Etop J. James (Ekiti), Mohammed Adamu (Enugu), Wilson Inalegwu (FCT), Austin Iwar (Gombe), T. Lakanu (Imo), U. Tilli Abubakar (Jigawa), U.U.Shehu (Kaduna), M. Katsina (Kano), U. Abdullahi (Katsina), Yakubu O. Jubrin (Kebbi), E. Amadasun (Kwara), F. Owoseni (Lagos), Mohammed Sani Usman (Nasarawa), Abubakar Marafa (Niger), Abdulmajid Ali (Ogun).
Also deployed are: M. Ogbodu (Ondo), K. Shodipo (Osun), Leye Oyebade (Oyo), Nasiru Oki (Plateau), Hyelasinda Kimo Musa (Rivers), Salisu F. Abdullahi (Sokoto), Ikechukwu Nwodibo (Taraba), Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim (Yobe), and Femi Ogunbayode (Zamfara).
Okiro advised the Commissioners to take their jobs seriously and ensure that they were committed to the enforcement of law and order and protection of lives and property within the ambit of the rule of law.