PSC elevates 5,000 additional top officers and 12 police commissioners

The promotion of 5,718 senior police officers from the force’s general duty and speciality cadres was approved, the Police Service Commission (PSC) stated on Thursday.

Additionally, the commission authorised the promotion of 12 Commissioners of Police to the position of Assistant Inspector General of Police and the elevation of 19 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the substantive level of Commissioner.

In addition, Solomon Arase, the commission’s chairman, who made the announcement in Abuja, said that 33 Chief Superintendents of Police were also promoted to Assistant Commissioner while 21 Assistant Commissioners of Police were raised to the next rank of DCPs.

Arase insisted that the newly promoted police always keep in mind that the enforcement culture is based on a people-friendly attitude, respect for citizens’ fundamental rights, and an unyielding fighting spirit to deal with societal problems.

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He added that 47 CSPs, including 23 doctors of medicine and 24 doctors of veterinary medicine, were elevated to the position of ACP for the specialists cadre. He said that the commission had approved the elevation of two ACPs—one from the airwing and the other from forensic—to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners.

He said that 190 superintendents of police from the computer information technology unit, another 8 from works, 1 workshop, 12 transport, 2 forensic, 2 handwriting, 1 ballistics, 1 religion, and 1 veterinary doctor were also elevated.

47 specialists holding the rank of Assistant Superintendents of Police in various Units were elevated to Deputy Superintendents.

The Commission also authorised the promotion of 265 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents, 59 DSP to Superintendent, 4750 Assistant Superintendents, and another 146 Assistant Superintendents who were left out of the May 2022 promotion exercise elevated to Deputy Superintendents, according to PlatinumPost.

Arase continued by praising Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police, for working with the Commission to make sure that promotions, for the first time in a very long time, had permeated all of the Force’s departments.

The former IGP expressed his hope that this one gesture would inspire the employees to do their best to ensure that concerns with crime and criminality were adequately addressed.