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Edo State Police Command [+] Print this page

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Police [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Edo [+] 1 July 2004 [+] 2012 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Benin City [+] 1 July 2004 [+] 31 July 2015 [+]

Parent units

All units that have held a command position over this unit.
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Subsidiaries

Name Other Names Classification First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Criminal Intelligence Bureau (Edo State Police Command) [+] CIB [+] Police [+] 2008 [+]
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Edo State Police Command) [+] Police [+]
Special Anti-Robbery Squad [+] 		22 December 2017 [+]
State Criminal Investigation Department (Edo State Police Command) [+] CID [+]
Criminal Investigation Department [+]
criminal investigations department [+] 		Police [+] 2008 [+] May 2010 [+]

Personnel

Table showing personnel linked to this unit in command, administrative and other roles
Name Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Samuel Adegbuyi [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 21 March 2015 [+]
Emmanuel Adebayo [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 10 June 2003 [+]
Joseph Edoigiawerie [+] Deputy Superintendent of Police [+] Public Relations Officer [+] 21 March 2015 [+]
Paul Ochonu [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 8 August 2004 [+] 20 September 2004 [+]
Noble Uwoh [+] Deputy Superintendent of Police [+] Public Relations Officer [+] Public Relations Officer [+] 1 July 2014 [+]
Danlami Yar'Adua [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 12 February 2009 [+] 29 April 2009 [+]
Hakeem Odumosu [+] None None
Muktar Abass [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 12 August 2005 [+]
Philemon I. Leha [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 14 January 2005 [+] 19 January 2005 [+]

Sources

List of all sources used to evidence the data in this record Click the "+" symbol next to every data point in the record to see the sources used for that data point.
Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
29 April 2002 Vanguard Government Begins Decentralisation of Defence Units
06 November 2002 Vanguard Absence of Counsels Stalls Trial of Rewane's Suspected Killers
10 June 2003 Vanguard IG Orders Probe of DSP Over Indiscriminate Shooting
12 September 2003 Daily Trust Police Recover N1m From Robbers in Benin
10 March 2004 Vanguard Akume: Police Arrest 44 Suspects
01 July 2004 Vanguard Police Nab Suspected MASSOB Members in Benin City
08 August 2004 Daily Champion Soldiers, Policemen in Bloody Clash
20 September 2004 Vanguard Police Get Conditions for Peace After Ambrose Alli Varsity Student's Killing
14 January 2005 Vanguard Irate Youths Raze Police Station, Barracks
19 January 2005 Vanguard Police Commissioner Gives Uromi Division 48 Hours to Produce Suspect
17 January 2005 Vanguard Fear Grips Uromi Town Over Indiscriminate Arrests
11 July 2005 This Day Police Commissioner Redeployed
11 August 2005 Vanguard Edo Youths Sack LG Chairman, Install Suspended Boss
16 September 2005 Daily Champion Police Hunt Assembly Member in Edo
12 February 2009 Daily Trust Robbers Kill Ten Cops in Benin, Abeokuta
13 February 2009 This Day Oshiomhole Promises to Improve On Security in Edo
29 April 2009 Vanguard Police Parade 11 Suspected Kidnappers in Edo
15 January 2010 Daily Independent Anambra – Police Intercept Truckload of Election Materials
19 June 2010 Daily Champion Intrigues, Controversies And Self-Service Being Exploited By the Hoodlums
25 October 2010 Daily Champion GPI Boss Detained for Defrauding Customers
01 July 2014 Daily Independent Driver Beats Policeman to Death in Benin
21 March 2015 Leadership Suspicion, Conspiracy Trail Death of 27-Year-Old in Benin
31 July 2015 Daily Independent Group Condemns Extra Judicial Killings By Police in Edo
07 February 2015 Daily Independent Nigeria Police and Violence-Free Elections
1968 Supreme Military Council of Nigeria Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 Part II S.19(2) 18 September 2018
2008 CLEEN Foundation Motions Without Movement: Report of Presidential Committees On Police Reforms In Nigeria.
2012 Nigeria Police Force BAYELSA POLICE COMMAND
Nigeria Police Force EDO POLICE COMMAND.
Nigeria Police Force STATE STRUCTURE ORGANOGRAM OF ZONE FIVE COMMAND
19 November 2009 Vanguard INEC, Police assure on Anambra guber election
22 January 2010 Vanguard Etsako Re-Run - 1,600 Policemen, AIG Deployed to Edo
27 August 2011 Vanguard 25 killed as suicide bomber blows up in Abuja UN House
28 February 2012 Vanguard Promotion of Dig’s, Aigs – Senior Officers Petition Presidency, National Assembly
20 October 2012 Vanguard Ondo Guber: It’s D-Day Today
24 April 2015 Vanguard Edo Police Quiz Traditional Ruler Over Police Rifle in His Bedroom
21 September 2016 Amnesty International "You Have Signed Your Death Warrant" : Torture And Other Ill Treatment In the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. AFR 44/4868/2016 27 September 2018
22 December 2017 Nigeria Police Force “AN ADDRESS BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, IGP IBRAHIM K
21 January 2022 Newsmakers IGP Baba Replaces Odumosu with CP Abiodun Alabi in Lagos …Posts Garba, Abass to Yobe, Benue 22 January 2022
23 September 2021 Newsmakers Officer Killed as Police Clash with Motorbike Riders in Lagos …CP Visits Divisions to Assess Security 21 January 2022
2010 Network on Police Reform in Nigeria et al Criminal Force – Torture, Abuse, and Extrajudicial Killings by the Nigeria Police Force
14 November 2019 TheCable Odumosu appointed Lagos commissioner of police 22 January 2022