The Lagos State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has expressed dismay at property securities who insist on finishing up routine checks earlier than giving police operatives entry to their premises.
He made this identified in a latest put up on his X deal with on Friday.
This was in response to an X consumer @AyBenson who accused police operatives from the Ogombo Division of brutally beating up his property safety man on Wednesday, April 24
The X consumer claimed that the safety man was solely finishing up his “due diligence” when “they jumped out numbering about 10 and descended on him with their weapons to the extent of breaking his enamel and injuring him.”
SP Benjamin mentioned “It’s really unhappy and worrisome that when an property resident calls the police to answer an ongoing incident inside an property, cops in full uniform and police-branded patrol autos are stopped on the gate by the property safety males to ‘perform due diligence in checks,’ to make use of your actual phrases.
“Obstructing cops within the discharge of their duties is an offense. Resisting arrest is equally an offense. Minimal pressure will likely be utilized the place completely obligatory.
“For different claims about actions of cops residing within the property, it’s curious that the property residents affiliation has by no means known as the eye of the Lagos State Police Command to them, particularly contemplating that we’ve got an open channel of communication with all CDAs and property residents associations principally by means of their Chief Safety Officers.”
