The Police Service Commission has received no fewer than 50 fresh petitions from some police officers complaining about wrong dismissals or malicious reduction in their ranks.
The petitions, according to insider sources, were already being looked into by the commission’s top management headed by its Chairman, Sir Mike Okiro.
The affected police officers had initially been tried and found guilty by a properly constituted disciplinary bodies, which found them guilty of some of the offences for which they were tried.
The Nigeria Police Force operates under various disciplinary codes for which compliance is
compulsory.
The PSC is the apex body that looks into the cases of some high ranking officers, while those with lesser ranks could ordinarily have their cases adjudicated upon by either the Commissioner of Police or Assistant Inspectors General, as the case may be.
The apex police disciplinary body adjudicates upon hundreds of cases yearly and its pronouncement is final, except for those cases taken before courts of competent
jurisdiction.
This year alone, over 60 police officers found guilty of various offences have been shown the way out of the force, while those with less offences either had their ranks reduced or simply queried. It is never out of place that many of them would appeal against the actions taken against them.
Force spokesperson, Moshood Jimoh, a Chief Superintendent of Police, could not be reached for comments as he did not pick several calls put to his mobile phone by our correspondent.
