We Won’t Tolerate Indiscipline Among Policemen, CP Declares

Ebonyi State police commissioner, CP Augustina Ogbodo yesterday said that the police authority will stop at nothing in ensuring that erring police officers across the command are disciplined to serve as warning to others.

Ogbodo made the disclosure when the leadership and members of the Ebonyi State Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), paid her a courtesy call in her office at the State Police Headquarters, Abakaliki.

She expressed dismay on the attitude of some policemen who she described as recalcitrants and have continued to bring bad name to the police system.

“Let me inform you that the inspector-general of police doesn’t spare any of the police officers who brings bad name to the police force especially when such person is caught with their bad behaviors,” she said.

Ogbodo described journalists as very important in the fight against crime and criminality in the state and assured that she will continue to relate with the chapel in her efforts to secure the state.

“The truth is that journalists are very indispensable in information dissemination, you hold the key to it. The command will continue to partner with the press for crime prevention and control”, she stated.

Earlier, the acting chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ebonyi State, Mr. Uchenna Inya said that members of the chapel paid the courtesy visit to the police commissioner to strengthen the relationship between the police and journalists in crime prevention and control.

He described the police commissioner as an experienced police officer who has stabilized the security system in the state through her proactiveness and resilience in the fight against criminality in the state within two months she was posted to Ebonyi State.

Inya said CP Ogbodo had during her stay in Anambra State where she was promoted to commissioner of police was hardworking, vibrant and a refined police officer that should be emulated.