The Police Service Commission (PSC) has dismissed 10 senior police officers and demoted eight others reduced the rank of eight others over various cases of misconduct in the line of duty.
A statement from the spokesman of the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani yesterday said the Commission took the decision at its 8th Plenary Meeting which spanned three weeks and ended on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020.
He said the dismissed Officers were one Superintendent of Police (SP), five Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSP) and four Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP).
A Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), four SPs, one DSP and one ASP were demoted.
The commission also approved the reprimand for some officers, and letters of warning to others.
Meanwhile, the commission has also approved the promotions of 6,618 senior officers including one AIG to DIG, four CPs to AIG and three DCPs to CPs.
