‘Misconduct’: PSC reinstates 10 dismissed police officers after ‘appeals, petitions’

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the reinstatement of 10 officers dismissed over “misconduct”. 

According to Ikechukwu Ani, the commission’s spokesman, the PSC also approved the conversion of the dismissal of two officers to compulsory retirement. 

Ani said the PSC took the decision at its 17th plenary meeting presided over by Clara Ogunbiyi, its acting chairperson, which ended in Abuja on November 11. 

“The Police Service Commission has considered the appeals and petitions of 18 dismissed Police Officers and approved the reinstatement of 10 of them,” the statement reads.

“The Commission also approved the conversion of the dismissal of two officers to retirement and rejected the appeals of six others for lack of merit.

“The Commission also approved the conversion of 301 ICT professionals to general duty.

“It had earlier approved the special promotion of CSP Daniel Amah to the next rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police for his exemplary conduct in rejecting a bribe of $200,000 in the course of his duty as the Divisional Police Officer in Bompai, Kano State.

“CSP Amah was also presented with Honesty and Integrity Service Award and a cash gift of one million naira.

“The plenary meeting also approved the promotion of 48 staff of the Commission.”

According to Ani, the commission remains committed to ensuring fair hearing on cases of misconduct, and “will continue to ensure that appeals and petitions by aggrieved or dismissed police officers will be treated with dispatch so that no police officer is unjustly punished as a result of unnecessary delay”.

Ogunbiyi also assured PSC staff members of prompt and regular promotion, and urged them to remain committed in the discharge of their duties.