POLICE SET UP SPY NUMBER PLATE RECOVERY TEAMS IN ANAMBRA & EBONYI STATES, CAUTIONS AGAINST EXTORTION
REPORTERS: KEVIN EKEDIEGWU & AMECHI ODO
The Police Command in Anambra State has established an enforcement team to ensure full recovery of all Police spy number plates in the state.
This is in furtherance of the IGP’S recent order banning the possession and usage of Police SPY Vehicle Number Plates across the country.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Echeng Echeng while addressing the Command’s Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and other heads of formations in the Command, tasked the officers to give full support to the enforcement team in their efforts at enforcing the order to the letter.
The Police Commissioner reemphasized that the order was part of deliberate measures aimed at strengthening internal security in the country and preventing continuous disregard for traffic rules and regulations and other extant laws guiding road-users by individuals hiding under the privileges of SPY police number plates.
In a statement, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Tochukwu Ikenga, said Mr Echeng appealed to members of the public in the state to ensure compliance with the directives or risk being arrested for its violation.
Also, Ebonyi State Police Command has constituted police taskforce o implement the ban on the use SPY number Plates as directed by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Usman Alkalibaba.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Mr. Chris Anyanwu, explained that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aliyu Garba had mandated the police taskforce to go round the thirteen Local Government Areas of the state to ensure total compliance.
The statement, however, cautioned the police taskforce against human right violations, extortion and other unethical conducts in the course of carrying out the assignment.
It further directed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and all Tactical teams to ensure that all Police SPY number Plates currently in use in the state were withdrawn.
EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU
