The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed one Sergeant Ekpo Shimuyere attached to Sogunle Division for extorting #98,000 from a young man.
The command’s spokeperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin who disclosed it to newsmen on Wednesday said that the Sergeant action was againsts the police code of conduct and ethics, stating that the Provost Department of the command had already disrobed him.
He said, “The dismissed sergeant collected the phone of his victim and used a POS operator to transfer ₦98,000 out of the ₦100,000 in the young man’s bank account”.
“Police got the complaint from the victim and the officer denied the crime when he was contacted. The command placed him under detention so that he will not tamper with the evidence.
“We wrote to his bank and obtained his statement of account. We were able to trace the money to where the POS operator transferred it to before transferring the money to the officer’s account”.
He added that so many investigations were carried out, including inviting the young man for testimony and also the POS operator who said that “the officer requested him to transfer the money from the victim’s account to another one.”
Speaking further, He said that the Sergeant was consequently subjected to Orderly Room trial in line with extant laws which the Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr Idowu Owohunwa, have reviewed and approved.
He then warned that the command would continue to punish any police officer found to have engaged in unprofessional conduct.