By Hosea Parah, Abuja

Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the provisional posting of CP Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to the Adamawa State Police Command as its new Commissioner of Police pending approval of the Police Service Commission .

Also posting of CP Adebola A. Hamzat, has been varied to Commissioner of Police in charge of the Border Patrol Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

Similarly, CP Lanre Bankole Sikiru, the former CP Ogun State, has been posted to head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) X-Squad at its Annex in Lagos State.

The IGP has urged the new CP X-Squad to deploy all requisite assets in ensuring sanity, professional standards and discipline in all ramifications.

The IGP therefore charged the senior police officers to effectively apply their wealth of experiences to improving existing structural arrangements towards achieving a citizen-focused and community-oriented policing system. He also called for support and cooperation from members of the public to enable the newly posted senior officers to perform optimally on their mandate.

A statement by the Force Spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the
posting which was part of efforts to achieve maximum impact of community-based and strategic policing on the society, is with immediate effect.

Nothing was however said about the immediate past CP of Adamawa Command.