CP Ari Muhammed Ali
* List successes recorded during the week ending today
By Jon Egie
The Commissioner of Police Delta state Command CP Ari Muhammed Ali, FCIA, Psc+ has directed all Area Commanders, DPOs and tactical commanders to embark on serious raid of criminal hideout and constant visibility .
He also urged members of the public to be law abiding to make the task of policing much more easier assuring that the efforts currently being put in place to ensure peace and security will be sustained.
Meanwhile, in the fight against crime and criminality, the Command in a release by its PPRO, Bright Edafe said the following successes were recorded:
Confronted and killed one armed robber during live operations
That yesterday, Thursday, Sept 16, at about 1320 hrs the DPO ‘A’ Division Warri CSP T.Y Mahmud led the Divisional Rapid Respond Team on observation/visibility patrol along Warri Sapele Road by Warri club, and got information that that a three man armed robbery gang robbed an unknown victim and that they were operating in a black toyota corolla car with registration number RBC 218 BL grey color.
The team extended their patrol further with a view to arresting the gang but the armed robbers on sighting the police fired at the men and during the gun duel, one of the armed robbers sustained serious gun shot injury while two others escaped with bullet wound.
The injured suspect was rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost while receiving treatment. The suspect before he died gave his name as Andrew and admitted to be a member of the dreaded Imomotimi group, a dare devil gang that has been on Command wanted list.
One locally made pistol loaded with a life cartridge , one hundred and thirty thousand naira, one small nokia phone and the above stated toyota corolla were recovered.
Arrested a man for illegal possession of firearm
Day before yesterday, Wednesday, Sept 15, at about 0100hrs Isiokolo Divisional patrol team in conjunction with vigilante while on stop and search along Okpara – Okurekpo Road, Isiokolo flagged down a lady’s motor cycle with three (3) passengers. Upon reasonable suspicion they were searched and during the search, one cut-to- size locally made double barrel gun was recovered from one of the passengers named Oghenenyerhovwo solomon ‘m’ of Uruegbe street okpara.
He was promptly arrested and the motorcycle impounded while the two (2) others escaped into the bush. Efforts to arrest the two suspects at large are being intensified.
Arrested suspected cultist and recovered illegal guns
On Monday, Sept 13, between 0025hrs and 0430hrs raider operatives raided black spots in Koko, Oghara and some areas in Sapele that are known to be hide out for some notorious cult related activities.
During the raid, one suspected cultist Rukevwe Afakpor ‘m’ 29yrs old was arrested and one (1) locally made double barrel gun and three (3) live cartridges were recovered from him.
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