{"id":224623,"date":"2020-06-09T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=224623"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:05:12","slug":"ebonyi-gets-new-commissioner-of-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=224623","title":{"rendered":"Ebonyi gets new Commissioner of Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Mr. Philip Maku, the newly posted Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi State, has assumed duty in Abakiliki.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mohammed Adamu, had ordered the posting of 11 Commissioners of Police (CPs) to states and police formations.<\/p>\n<p>However, the states Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Loveth Odah, in a statement released to newsmen in Abakiliki on Tuesday said the new commissioner hails from Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area (LGA) of Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration and was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force as a course one Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (Cadet-ASP) in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was trained for 18 months and was posted to the police command in Plateau where he later became the PPRO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has served in various capacities in the force and attended several professional courses in law enforcement, crime prevention, control, and management within and outside the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the new CP was the former Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP)-Cooperative Society Lagos, DCP-Federal Operations (Fed-DOPS) Abuja, DCP-Zonal Criminal Investigation Department, Bauchi among other positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has successfully coordinated and supervised tactical and intelligence response team operations which led to the arrest of high profile criminals and recovery of a large cache of arms and ammunition,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that Maku took over from Mr. Awosola Awotinde who retired from the service on May 14 after attaining the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Philip Maku, the newly posted Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi State, has assumed duty in Abakiliki. DAILY POST recalls that the Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mohammed Adamu, had ordered the posting of 11 Commissioners of Police (CPs) to states and police formations. However, the states Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Loveth Odah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,702,61],"class_list":["post-224623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ebonyi","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}