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Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Anambra State Police Command) [+] Print this page

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Police  Special Anti-Robbery Squad [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Anambra [+] May 2010 [+] 21 September 2016 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Onitsha [+] 21 May 2012 [+]
Anambra [+] May 2010 [+] 21 September 2016 [+]

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11 April 2017 Security Force Monitor This unit is a placeholder to represent the hierarchical structure of this branch of the security service, based on the Security Force Monitor's research, as the Monitor does not currently have a source for a parent relationship to a specific, named unit
13 October 2000 Vanguard Anambra Police Arrest Seven UNIZIK Cult Members
07 April 2004 This Day Police Pledge to Maintain Peace
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
24 February 2006 This Day Onitsha: the Aftermath
13 July 2006 Daily Champion Murder - Ex-Commissioner's Household Arrested
02 August 2006 Vanguard Police Arrest Four in Okija Over Attack
15 April 2007 Vanguard Violence Mars Polls - 52 Killed
25 September 2007 Daily Trust Police Kill Six Armed Robbers, Nab Nine in Anambra
02 May 2008 Leadership IGP Redeploys 53 Senior Officers
03 November 2008 Vanguard Group Tasks IG, Commissioner on Bullion Van Robbery
09 December 2008 Vanguard Community Wants IG to Probe Murder of Security Guard
25 January 2009 This Day Rights Group Faults Police Over Kidnappings
30 April 2009 Vanguard Groups Hail Appointment of Bella as New Anambra CP
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
02 January 2011 Daily Champion Court Wades Into Umuchu, Achina Boundary Crises
09 February 2011 Daily Champion Onitsha - Police Arrest 200 MASSOB Memberrs
09 February 2011 Daily Champion Five Injured as MASSOB, Police Clash
19 June 2011 Daily Champion IG Solicits Support of South-East to Fight Armed Robbery, Kidnapping
10 July 2011 Daily Independent Banks Swoop On Anambra Contractors - Over N250m Unpaid Contracts
22 December 2011 Daily Champion Court Orders Police to Release Three Anambra Vigilante Men
06 January 2013 Daily Trust Why We Kidnapped Our Father, By Two Brothers
27 January 2013 Leadership CD Gives Anambra CP Seven-Day Ultimatum to Find Killers of News Magazine's Editor
08 January 2014 This Day Crime Rate Reduced Drastically in 2013, Say Police
19 May 2014 Daily Independent Obiano Demolishes Kidnappers' Houses in Aguleri
26 May 2014 Daily Independent Obiano Donates N1 Million to Family of Late Soldier
10 September 2014 Premium Times Governor Obiano Presents Three Refurbished APCs to Anambra Police
16 April 2015 Daily Independent Police Arrests Bank Manager Over N15 Million Fraud
12 November 2014 Daily Independent Tension in Nnobi Over Traditional Stool, As Community Holds Parallel New Yam Festivals
17 November 2013 Daily Post Anambra Election: CP confirms arrest of electorial official
04 February 2015 The Guardian (Nigeria) Rivers, Kano, 14 Others Get New Police Commissioners
1968 Supreme Military Council of Nigeria Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 Part II S.13(1) 18 September 2018
22 August 2010 Nigeria Police Force DEPARTMENT 'D'
22 November 2013 Sahara Reporters Police Redeploy 5 AIGs, 2 Commissioners
24 June 2016 Channels Television Anambra CP Urges Newly Decorated Officers To Be Professional
2008 CLEEN Foundation Motions Without Movement: Report of Presidential Committees On Police Reforms In Nigeria.
02 September 2016 Daily Trust Abagana Petitions IGP Over Land Dispute
06 April 2016 Federal Republic of Nigeria Anambra State
Nigeria Police Force ANAMBRA POLICE COMMAND
26 March 2015 Premium Times Police redeploy 17 senior officers
01 May 2008 The Nation (Nigeria) I saw hell in kidnappers’ den, says Anambra monarch
27 June 2009 Vanguard Police arrest killers of DPO in Enugu
19 November 2009 Vanguard INEC, Police assure on Anambra guber election
01 April 2011 Vanguard AS THE NATION VOTES TOMORROW: IG shocks Govs
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
08 September 2012 Vanguard End of Road for Anambra's Most Wanted Crime Suspect
20 October 2012 Vanguard Ondo Guber: It’s D-Day Today
10 August 2013 Vanguard How human heads were concealed in Onitsha hotel room – Suspect
08 September 2014 Vanguard Lagos, 20 other states get new Police Commissioners
27 August 2015 Vanguard Police redeploys 37 commissioners
16 September 2015 Vanguard MASSOB breeding kidnappers and armed robbers – Anambra police boss
15 November 2015 Vanguard Our security template drove robbers, kidnappers out of Anambra – CP Hassan Karma
06 July 2016 Vanguard Community appeals to FG over controversial monuments
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
26 November 2012 Channels Television Gunmen attack anti-robbery squad headquarters in Abuja
27 March 2015 Channels Television Police On Alert To Ensure Peaceful Election In Anambra – CP
17 August 2013 Anambra State Government Distress Call Telephone Numbers of All Divisions in Anambra State Police Command
04 December 2017 Nigeria Police Force “IGP ORDERS IMMEDIATE RE-ORGANIZATION OF SPECIAL ANTI-ROBBERY SQUAD (SARS) ACROSS THE COUNTRY”
22 December 2017 Nigeria Police Force “AN ADDRESS BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, IGP IBRAHIM K
2010 Network on Police Reform in Nigeria et al Criminal Force – Torture, Abuse, and Extrajudicial Killings by the Nigeria Police Force
11 March 2012 Vanguard Shake Up in Police – Manko Is CP Lagos, Aduba CP Delta, Balogun CP Edo 24 October 2018
22 May 2012 Vanguard Gunmen kill OC SARS in Onitsha