How Police Rescued Abducted Lagos School Girls Without Ransom

LAGOS—After six harrowing days in the custody of kidnappers, three abducted students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, yesterday, breathed the air of freedom. The girls were rescued in Imota, another town on the outskirt of Ikorodu, after intricate police moves that started with the arrest of one of the suspects, last Friday.

The girls- Timilehin Olusa, Tofunmi Popo and Deborah Akinayo, were abducted last Monday in their school, an act that outraged the nation. The news of their release provoked spontaneous jubilation in their school when Vanguard visited, yesterday.

Suspected kidnapper of three Lagos school girls, 

Emmanuel Arigidi (left) with two other conspirators paraded, yesterday in Lagos.

‘Everything they said about me was false’ : Times Square desnuda

A Times Square painted lady charged with offering an undercover cop oral sex says the naked truth is that she’s the victim of a frame job.

Destiny Romero told the Daily News Sunday during a brief interview at Rikers Island that police concocted the story that she arranged to sell an officer $200 worth of cocaine and molly and perform the sex act.

“Everything they said about me was false,” Romero, 20, said. “It was a setup.”

She said she’d worked in Times Square as a desnuda for about a year and that her friend and handler, Jason Perez, got her into the job.

NYPD cop arrested for third time in less than a year: police

An NYPD officer had been arrested three times in less than a year, police say.

Stacey Staniland, 29, was most recently arrested Tuesday night after crashing a motorcycle in Staten Island, cops said. She is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, possession of a hypodermic needle and driving an unregistered motorcycle.

Run Convict Prisoner David Sweat shot by State Police

A sharpshooting state police sergeant gunned down on-the-run convict David Sweat after spotting him jogging down a country road Sunday, ending a three-week search for him and a fellow prisoner after their stunning getaway from an upstate prison.

 

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The Police Service has lost it, Commanding Respect - Nunoo-Mensah

Two-time Chief of Defense Staff Brig. Gen. (rtd) Joseph Nunoo-Mensah believes it will take the army to restore discipline in Ghana because Ghanaians have lost respect for the police.
According to the former National Security Advisor, the police service has lost it when it comes to commanding respect and “it is time to define new roles for the military” to be involved in all activities.

Police Uncover Fake Currency Factory in Ibadan

The Oyo State Police Command has discovered a place in a remote village of Ibadan, where thousands of fake pounds, euros, dollars and other foreign currencies were being produced.

Manu Tuilagi to miss World Cup after Assaulting a Police Officer

As a result of his convictions, he will not be considered at international level again until January 2016.

Below is an official joint statement released earlier on Friday by the RFU, Leicester and Tuilagi:

England Rugby and Leicester Tigers have taken action against Manu Tuilagi following his conviction on three charges of assault and one of criminal damage.

Suspect steals N3.2m during PDP campaign rally

A suspected thief arrested by the police in Lagos, Tokunbo Ojo, says a master key he owned made it easy for him to steal from vehicles during public functions such as weddings and burials.

 

PUNCH Metro learnt that Ojo recently got lucky as he stole N3.2m from a car parked at the campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Why Jonathan fired IGP, Suleiman Abba

ABUJA — THE Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, yesterday, became the first major casualty of the just concluded general elections, which President Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost to the opposition.

The police officer, who was elevated to the post only last year, incurred the wrath of the Presidency on the eve of the governorship and House of Assembly elections for allegedly arguing with the government officials over the directive to recall the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Charge of Zone 6, Tunde Ogunshakin, from Rivers State.

Jonathan sacks Suleiman Abba, appoints Arase as acting IGP

President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the inspector-general of police, Suleiman Abba, with immediate effect.

EXCLUSIVE: Proposed Federal rules for NYPD Training include Cop 101 advice like 'don't be racist'

NYPD recruits are about to get a crash course in the ABCs of policing.

The federal monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD wants the current class of Police Academy recruits to be taught groundbreaking new concepts like: Don’t be racist, don’t mock others, don’t tell sexist jokes and don’t hassle people for no reason.

The monitor, Peter Zimroth, asked Manhattan Federal Judge Analisa Torres on Monday to approve the stack of new training materials that will be presented to the class of cadets graduating in June.

He included in filings more than 75 PowerPoint slides that delve into the nitty-gritty of police work, detail constitutional stop-and-frisk practices — and give remedial directions that, it is hoped, the officers already know.

“Do not imitate the speech patterns of others: This will appear disingenuous, artificial and possibly racist,” reads another.

“Avoid expressing stereotypical assumptions. ‘He’s Irish but I’ve never seen him drunk,’ ” reads another.

The proposed instructional material is the result of Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin’s 2013 ruling declaring the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional.