The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Alkali Usman, has said that the police are regulating the activities and checkmating the highhandedness of state-owned security outfits.
Usman stated this on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The IG said that the state-owned security outfits had been created to curb crime and criminality as states had been told not to use the outfits for political reasons.
Usman said, “Ebubuagu in Ebonyi, we have on many occasions, checked their highhandedness by arresting and investigating those who have actually gone out of their way to commit crime and we have charged them to court.
“If we can charge our personnel for highhandedness and other activities, there is nobody who is going to be exempted.
“If there is any specific case that the police have not gone into concerning those outfits, you mention it; but to the best of our knowledge, theory and practice may differ.”
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According to Usman, the outfits should avoid being influenced by either primordial loyalty, inducement or other things in discharging their duties.
He warned that officers of the outfits who derail from their legal duties would be prosecuted.
“Some people go out of their way to do the wrong thing and they will be charged.
“And that is why, if these outfits are created by the governors, we are invited to educate them on the extent of their engagement in crime prevention and control.
“We are checking them; they are also good, bad and ugly; they have their good sides. That is why they needed to be checkmated and we are doing that,’’ he said.