Foluso Adebanjo, Rivers CP

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

The Rivers State Police command now has a new Commissioner of Police. He is CP. Foluso A. Adebanjo, mni who has assumed duty as the 36th Rivers State Commissioner of Police. He takes over from CP. Musa Kimo, who is now deployed to Force Headquarters, Abuja.

The new Commissioner of Police joined the Nigeria Police in 1984 as Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police and rose through the ranks to his present rank of Commissioner of Police in 2012.

He is a holder of bachelor and masters degrees in Criminology/Criminal Justice Administration and Management obtained from the University of Central Oklahoma, United States of America. He is an alumnus of the elitist National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos.

He has served in various capacities in the force. He was in the recent past the Commissioner of Police Explosive Ordinance Disposal (Anti-Bomb), Force Headquarters, Abuja and Commissioner of Police Edo State Command. He was until his present posting a Commissioner of Police, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

CP. Foluso A. Adebanjo, a versatile police officer with impeccable track records in crime fighting, attended various development courses both at home and abroad.

While assuring the good people of Rivers State to remain confident and trusting in his ability to dutifully discharge the police constitutional mandate of ensuring public peace and security; the Commissioner of Police appealed for their cooperation, support and understanding to enable him put in place virile and sustained security architecture that will bring the crime level in the state to an appreciable level.

TheNEWS learnt authoritatively that the recent redeployment of a new CP to Rivers was part of the shakeup in Security Architecture in the state whereby over 370 Police Officers and about 21 Divisional Police Officers have been posted out of the state due to alarming cases of cult gang wars in the many parts of the state almost unchecked.