GIFT ROBERTS
Anambra State Police Command has arrested and charged some officers over extortion of N500,000 from a resident of the state.
A statement by the state Police Public Police Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, regarding the crime, said that the Commissioner of Police, Monday Kuryas, has expressed zero-tolerance for extortion in the command.
The statement read, “The Commissioner of Police, Monday Kuryas has expressed total aversion to unprofessionalism and other extortionists tendencies among some police personnel in the command.”
On the extortion, he said it followed a petition to the CP alleging the extortion of the sum of N500,000 from a citizen by some men of the command.
“Investigations ordered by the CP into the case led to the swift identification and arrest of the personnel involved.
“The sum of N500,000 extorted from the victim was recovered intact and returned to him and the officers charged with misconduct in line with extant disciplinary procedures of the force.
“While restating his resolve to stamp out extortionist tendencies among personnel of the command, the CP urges citizens to report any misconduct whatsoever by the personnel of the command to him through the ‘X’ Squad or the Public Complaints Bureau,” Tochukwu said.
The statement did not disclose the identity or the number of officers involved in the crime.