The Kwara State Police Command has launched an investigation into allegations of Police harassment, brutality, intimidation and extortion of youths and students by some police operatives.
The Police Command assured that the policemen named in the allegations of harassment of citizens would be disciplined if found culpable.
The Command in a statement in Ilorin on Monday, by the spokesman, Mr Okasanmi Ajayi, said it will not take the allegations of brutality, intimidation, extortion and harassment of the youths and students by some policemen on the field lightly.
The statement said the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Police Command, Tuesday Assayomo, “assured the good people of Kwara State, especially the youth and students, that the command was not taking the allegation of brutality, intimidation, extortion and harassment of the youth and students by some policemen on the field lightly.”
He reiterated the Command’s commitment to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali’s mantra of policing with integrity, and protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens while deploying the carrots and stick approach in dealing with the men for granted.”
The Commissioner of Police admonished the youths and students to be calm, promising to investigate all the allegations raised by the youth and students especially on the Twitter Spaces adding, that sanctions would be appropriately effected to erring officers.
The Command dissociated itself from all references regarding working for senior officers by the men on the field and categorically said such references were lies and fallacies.
“Consequently, the Commissioner of Police advised the good people of Kwara State not to be scared of reporting the activities of the policemen in their localities with facts and proven evidence to the Command, while promising to treat such information with utmost confidentiality,” the spokesman stated.
The Command vowed that all policemen named in the allegations were already undergoing departmental trial, while necessary disciplinary actions were already being taken against those ones found culpable of the allegations, including deployment, as the Command was ready to name and shame the black sheep in the force.