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The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of over 3,800 senior police officers, including two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), ten Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and 17 Commissioners of Police (CPs). The promotions, confirmed at a plenary meeting in Abuja on Thursday and presided over by PSC Chairman DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu (retd.), followed successful completion of promotion examinations and oral interviews. Officers promoted to DIG are AIG Olaolu Adegbite, head of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, head of Zone 4 Police Headquarters in Makurdi, Benue State.
Ten CPs were elevated to AIG, including Omosanyin Olusegun, Ogbodo Ugobueze, Ohagwu Ndukwe, Taylor Olanrewaju, Regina Udoette, Afolabi Olutokunbo, Nwogoh Martin, Shetima Mohammed, Ibrahim Gotan and Danjuma IYahaya. Seventeen Deputy Commissioners of Police, including Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu and Josephine Adeh, were promoted to CP. The commission also approved promotions of 85 Assistant Commissioners of Police to DCP, 49 Chief Superintendents to ACP, 245 Superintendents to CSP, 498 Deputy Superintendents to SP and 3,218 Assistant Superintendents to DSP.
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