FULL LIST: 12 Police Commissioners Elevated to AIG, 238 Senior Officers promoted

The Police Service Commission has promoted “238 senior officers across various ranks”, including “12 Commissioners of Police who were elevated to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General.”

According to a statement issued Monday by PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, the promoted officers span “state commands, special units, and departments such as Intelligence, Fraud, and Eastern Ports.”

He further noted that the list includes the “current Commissioners of Police in Oyo, Jigawa, Taraba, and the FCID Zonal Command in Gombe, among others.”

The statement partly read:
“The 12 Commissioners of Police promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police are Johnson Oluwole Adenola, current Commissioner of Police, Oyo State, former Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector General of Police and also former Deputy Commissioner Operations, Delta State Command; Ako Benedict Gabriel, Current CP Anti Fraud; Ahmadu Tijani Abdullahi, CP Jigawa state; Emmanuel Adegbola Aina, acting AIG Intelligence, Force Intelligence; Omolara Ibidun Oloruntola; Hassan Abdu Yababet, CP, Police College Jos; Bretet Emmanuel Simon; CP Taraba; Enyinnaya Inonachi Adiogu, CP FCID, Gombe Zonal Command; Aminu Baba Raji; CP Special Unit, FCID, Alagbon; Mohammed Mu’azu Usman, CP Eastern Ports, Portharcourt; Festus Chinedu Oko, acting AIG DLS Department, Force Headquarters; and Ronke Nurat Okunade, Special Fraud Unit FCID Annex Lagos.”

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Ani also revealed that “16 Deputy Commissioners of Police were promoted to substantive commissioners,” while “27 Assistant Commissioners were promoted to Deputy Commissioners” across various command administrations, area commands, and police colleges.

He added that “one Assistant Commissioner was absent for the exercise and was not promoted.”

Additionally, the Commission approved the promotion of “145 Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners,” covering both general duty officers and specialists including those from “airwing, medical doctors and dentists, pharmacists, lab scientists, physiotherapists and nurses.”