FOLLOWING the retirement of Kenneth Embrimson as Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, a new Commissioner, Edward Ajogun, has been posted to the state Police Command.
A statement, on Wednesday, by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Ajogun had worked as Deputy Commissioner, Operations in Ogun State before he was promoted to CP and transferred to Police Medical Services, Falomo, Lagos, as CP Administration.
A graduate of Political Science, Second Class Upper, from the University of Ibadan, the new CP joined the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of police in 1988, and has reportedly worked in various capacities across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
The statement said he was appointed pioneer Police-Public Relations Officer of Delta State Police Command, from 1991 to 1993 and was Director of Operations( DOPs), Task Force on Telecommunications and Postal Offences between 1996 and 1998.
It said, “The new CP also worked as a detective in X-Squad, the anti-corruption section of the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, FCIID, Alagbon Close, Lagos. He was at various times Sectional Head at the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi as well as SCIID, Panti, Lagos, and later became pioneer Head, Anti-Vice Squad, Lagos State Police HQ, Ikeja. He had also served as DPO Elere and Ebute Ero, Lagos.
“CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, psc, was also Personal Assistant(PA) to the former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, npm, mni, CFR, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja and briefly as Principal Staff officer (PSO) Lagos Annex to the former IGP Solomon Arase, npm, mni, CFR. He has also served as Area Commander Bauchi, Akure, and Ikeja respectfully.”
The DSP added, “In 2016, he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police and posted to Rivers State as DC operations from where after a very short stint, he was transferred to Ondo State as DC operations.
“He was subsequently posted to Akwa Ibom State as DC state CID and from there to Ekiti State Police Command also as DC State CID.”
