We Won’t Tolerate Indiscipline Among Policemen – CP Augustina Ogbodo

• Ebonyi State’s CP Ogbodo vows to discipline erring police officers to deter misconduct, highlighting the IG’s strict stance
• Ogbodo hails journalists’ role in crime prevention, aiming to strengthen police-press partnership for effective information dissemination and control

CP Augustina Ogbodo, the commissioner of police in Ebonyi State, stated yesterday that the police authority would go to any length to ensure that erring police officers across the command are disciplined as a deterrent to others.

Ogbodo made the revelation during a courtesy call to her office at the State Police Headquarters in Abakaliki by the leadership and members of the Ebonyi State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

She expressed her displeasure with the attitude of some police officers, whom she described as obstinate and who have continued to bring a bad name to the police force.

Let me inform you that the inspector-general of police doesn’t spare any of the police officers who brings bad name to the police force especially when such person is caught with their bad behaviors, she said.

Ogbodo described journalists as very important in the fight against crime and criminality in the state and assured that she would continue to relate with the chapel in her efforts to secure the state.

The truth is that journalists are very indispensable in information dissemination, you hold the key to it. The command will continue to partner with the press for crime prevention and control, she stated.

Earlier, Mr Uchenna Inya, acting chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Correspondents’ Chapel in Ebonyi State, said that members of the chapel paid a courtesy visit to the police commissioner to strengthen the relationship between the police and journalists in crime prevention and control.

He described the police commissioner as an experienced officer who has stabilized the state’s security system through her proactiveness and resilience in the fight against criminality in the state within two months of her posting to Ebonyi State.

Inya stated that CP Ogbodo was a hardworking, vibrant, and refined police officer who should be emulated during her tenure as commissioner of police in Anambra State.