THE Divisional Police Officer – DPO, in the Meiran area of Alimosho Local Government of Lagos State for ‘‘leadership dereliction and supervisory ineptitude.’’
The action by the police followed a report of alleged extortion of the sum of N200,000 from a phone dealer by police officers from the Meiran police station.
In a statement, police spokesperson in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, said all other officers involved in an alleged extortion of a phone dealer have been identified and are currently at the Command Headquarters where their orderly room trial has commenced.
The officers allegedly detained the phone dealer and his brother for not providing an identity card or the receipts for the iPhones found with his brother.
The victims were later detained for alleged stealing and armed robbery until they negotiated their freedom with the sum of N200,000 which they paid to the police in cash.