{"id":306694,"date":"2021-01-22T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=306694"},"modified":"2021-01-22T19:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:07:30","slug":"4-police-inspectors-arrested-for-alleged-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=306694","title":{"rendered":"4 police inspectors arrested for alleged extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"69.541237113402\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1474917 jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Police arrest 25 suspects over alleged murder, other criminal offences\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?resize=58%2C39&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?resize=195%2C130&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?resize=115%2C77&amp;ssl=1 115w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg?resize=640%2C427&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"><br \/>\nThe Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested four police officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student on Wednesday at NGAB Junction, Isheri Area of Lagos State.<br \/>\n<!-- --><br \/>\nThe Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, stated this in a statement signed on Friday by the Command\u2019s spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.<br \/>\n\u201cThe pictures of the policemen caught in the acts of unprofessionalism and extortion, have gone viral on the social media.<br \/>\n\u201cThis attracted the Complaint Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Force Headquarters Abuja, and decided to track the policemen for necessary police action.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter due interrogation, the policemen confessed to the crime and refunded the money to the student on bond, which forms the key credible evidence in the case,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe police boss said that the acts of the inspectors were counterproductive to the ongoing reform agenda of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu.<br \/>\n\u201cI have ordered the orderly room trial of the inspectors with immediate effect so as to serve as deterrents to other criminally-minded police personnel in the command and beyond,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nOdumosu said that the command would spread its tentacles in its continuous efforts to fight unprofessional and disgusting acts among police personnel in Lagos State.<br \/>\nHe also assured the general public of people-oriented and community-based policing styles in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested four police officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student on Wednesday at NGAB Junction, Isheri Area of Lagos State. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, stated this in a statement signed on Friday by the Command\u2019s spokesman, CSP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299382,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[15778,250],"class_list":["post-306694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-endsars","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306694","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=306694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}