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Anambra State Police Command [+] Print this page

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Police [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Anambra [+] August 1991 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Awka [+] August 1991 [+] 15 April 2015 [+]

Parent units

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Subsidiaries

Name Other Names Classification First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Awka Police Area Command [+] Area Command Awka [+]
Area Command Police Station in Awka [+]
Awka Area Command [+] 		Police [+] 12 October 2000 [+] 11 November 2014 [+]
Criminal Intelligence Bureau (Anambra State Police Command) [+] CIB [+] Police [+] 2008 [+]
Nnewi Police Area Command [+] Police [+] 2 August 2006 [+] 17 August 2013 [+]
Onitsha Police Area Command [+] Onitsha Area Command [+] Police [+] 31 March 2004 [+] 15 September 2015 [+]
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Anambra State Police Command) [+] Police [+]
Special Anti-Robbery Squad [+] 		22 December 2017 [+]
State Criminal Investigation Department (Anambra State Police Command) [+] CID [+]
Criminal Investigation Department [+]
State CID [+] 		Police [+] 13 July 2006 [+] May 2010 [+]
Unknown Police Area Command in Anambra State [+] Placeholder [+]
Police [+] 		August 1991 [+] 2 September 2016 [+]

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
Abubakar Adamu [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 26 March 2015 [+] 26 August 2015 [+]
Karma Hosea Hassan [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 11 September 2014 [+] 3 February 2015 [+]
Karma Hosea Hassan [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 27 August 2015 [+] 17 July 2016 [+]
Samuel Okaula [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 2 September 2016 [+]
Hassan Karma [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 27 March 2015 [+]
Bala Magaji Nasarawa [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 11 March 2012 [+] 10 August 2013 [+]
Mohammed Indabawa [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 31 March 2011 [+]
Alhaji Mohammed Abbas [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 1 May 2008 [+] 25 January 2009 [+]
Donald Iroham [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 7 April 2004 [+]
Moses Anegbode [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 24 February 2006 [+]
Usman Akila Gwary [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 22 November 2013 [+] 19 August 2014 [+]
Alhalji Amusa Bello [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 30 April 2009 [+] 27 June 2009 [+]
Alhaji Ibrahim Murktari [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 8 February 2011 [+]
Alhaji Ibrahim Murktari [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 18 June 2011 [+] 9 November 2011 [+]
Oliver M. Osuchukwu [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 15 April 2007 [+] 27 April 2008 [+]
Paul Yakadi [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 4 February 2015 [+]
Philemon I. Leha [+] Commissioner of Police [+] Commander [+] 19 November 2009 [+] 25 October 2010 [+]

Sources

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
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
19 January 2001 This Day Anyanwu Calls for Relocation of Police Zonal Command
03 February 2004 This Day The Trouble With Emergency Rule
10 March 2004 Vanguard Akume: Police Arrest 44 Suspects
05 April 2004 Vanguard Fire Razes Section of Onitsha Main Market
07 April 2004 This Day Police Pledge to Maintain Peace
02 June 2004 Vanguard Police Discover Arms Depot in Abia
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
05 July 2005 This Day Avoid Extra-Judicial Killings, AIG Warns Police
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
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
24 May 2010 Daily Champion PSC Promotes Two to AIG, Punishes 16
08 June 2010 Daily Independent Crime, Police And the Judiciary – Matters Arising
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
08 May 2011 Daily Champion Okorocha's Victory Sets New Agenda for Imo
05 June 2011 Daily Champion IG Orders AIG to Relocate to Anambra
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
21 August 2014 Daily Trust Mbu, 18 Others Promoted to AIG Rank
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
16 September 2015 Vanguard MASSOB Breeding Kidnappers and Armed Robbers - Anambra Police Boss
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
28 August 2015 Daily Post IG of Police redeploys 19 AIGs, 49 CPs
17 July 2016 The Guardian (Nigeria) Commissioner Approves Promotion, Post of 18 Aigs, 37 CPs
04 February 2015 The Guardian (Nigeria) Rivers, Kano, 14 Others Get New Police Commissioners
16 October 2016 The Guardian (Nigeria) Police boss canvasses Transit Camps across LGAs, divisions
1968 Supreme Military Council of Nigeria Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 Part II S.19(2) 18 September 2018
27 April 2009 British Broadcasting Corporation On Patrol with Nigeria’s Police
22 November 2013 Sahara Reporters Police Redeploy 5 AIGs, 2 Commissioners
29 August 2015 The Sun (Nigeria) Shake up in police
2013 Budget Office of the Federation POLICE FORMATIONS AND COMMAND
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 The Structure of the Nigeria Police Force
Nigeria Police Force ANAMBRA POLICE COMMAND
2012 Nigeria Police Force STATE STRUCTURE ORGANOGRAM OF ZONE NINE COMMAND
20 January 2015 Premium Times Nigeria Police redeploy controversial AIG Mbu, 27 Others
26 March 2015 Premium Times Police redeploy 17 senior officers
23 August 2014 Premium Times Police Inspector-General redeploys 36 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
31 January 2011 Vanguard Policing Lagos - Not a Tea Party - Akpoyibo
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
27 March 2015 Vanguard IGP Redeploys Top Officers On Election Duty
10 August 2013 Vanguard How human heads were concealed in Onitsha hotel room – Suspect
22 November 2013 Vanguard I-G redeploys 5 AIGs, 2 CPs
22 July 2014 Vanguard Chime Plots Deputy's Impeachment, Mobilises Lawmakers
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
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
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