The Commissioner of Police, Kwara
State Command, Mr. Lawan Ado, has vowed to dismiss any male policeman caught
searching a female suspect.
He lamented how personnel touch
sensitive parts of females under the guise of conducting search.
Ado was reacting to allegation by
a lady, Kachi Zion, who accused four operatives of the Special Anti-RobberySquad of sexually harassing her along the Pipeline area of Ilorin.
She specifically accused one of
the policemen of inserting his fingers into her private part.
In a statement on Friday, the
command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, said the CP at a
meeting with men and officers of the command alongside operatives of the
Federal SARS at the police headquarters in Ilorin, issued stern waring on the
matter.
Okasanmi said, “The CP told them
that a male policeman searching a female suspect is a misnomer.
“He also said it is robbery when
policemen accost citizens and search for mobile phones or force suspects to
withdraw money from automated teller machines.
“He further declared that any
officer arrested doing any of the above would be dismissed and charged to
court.
“This is a result of a number of
allegations of misconducts against the SARS operatives in recent times.”
The CP said the allegations had
brought disrepute to the image and the good name of the command.
He referred to allegations of
extortion and labelling every young man seen in a vehicle with laptops
computers as ‘Yahoo boy’, while also warning against drunkenness while on duty.
He further re-echoed the
directive of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, that the ban
on road blocks on highways remained in force, adding that policemen who flouted
this would be arrested.
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