CENTUS NWEZE Reporting
Muyiwa Adejobi, Police Public Relations Officer, force headquarters, Abuja, says officers who stoop too low to accept menial tasks from civilian VIPs they detailed to protect should be blamed and punished instead, and not their civilian charge.
According to him, the civilians are unaware of the police standard procedures and hence acted in ignorance unlike the police officer already schooled on conduct of a police officer.
“I dont always like to blame any VIP for sending his security aides ‘dirty’ errands, or misused his security aides, but the officers themselves who descend so low to do so,” Adejobi said in tweet on his veryfied handle.
“That VIP is a civilian, he knows little or nothing about the Standard Operating Procedure of the police or any agency.
” I always canvass for punishing the aide for his misdeeds and unprofessional conducts not to blame or condemn the VIP,” he said.
He boasts that no VIP dare send him on such because he would refuse outright.
“Send me a dirty job, I reject.
“Ask me to carry bag, I reject,” he added.
And he further went ahead to warn officers that accepting such task attracts official sanctions.
“So, the police wont spare any recalcitrant and disobedient personnel who dent the image or desecrate the Standards, norms, and ethics of the Police.
“Many of our personnel who have been found wanting have been dealt with accordingly.
“Its departmental, and actions have been taken on several occasions who dent the image or desecrate the Standards, norms, and ethics of the Police,” Adejobi stated.