…Deploys 1,000 additional personnel
Barely two days after he assumed duty at the Lagos State Police command, the new Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has declared a state of emergency on traffic management and control in the State.
Odumosu also ordered the immediate deployment of additional one thousand (1,000) Police officers to traffic duties.
The CP made the declaration during an emergency meeting he summoned at the command Headquarters to review the current traffic situation in the State.
He also reviewed the duty report time for traffic officers to take care of the peak hours.
According to him, traffic duties officers would now run two shifts between 10am and 10pm while the second shift will be 10pm to 10am, providing 24hours coverage even as he observed that they would all operate in their usual reflective jackets.
The measure, according to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Bala Elkana, would help in ensuring free flow of traffic and would also curb the menace of traffic robbery.
The Commissioner of Police calls on Lagosians to accord the Police officers on traffic duties maximum cooperation in the discharge of their statutory duties while calling on all road users to obey traffic laws.
In attendance were Deputy Commissioners of Police; Department of Finance and Administration, Department of Operations, Criminal Investigation Department and Rapid Response Squad.
Also in attendance were Area Commanders, Area Operations Officers, State Traffic Officer, Divisional Traffic Officers across the state and the Chairman Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special offences, among others.
Photo: New Lagos Police Chief addressing Officers during traffic review meeting at command headquarters on Wednesday.
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