Edgar Imohimi has been appointed the new Commissioner of Police
in-charge of the Lagos State Command by the Inspector General of Police,
Ibrahim Idris.
The appointment followed Edgar’s recent promotion by the
Police Service Commission (PSC). He was until his promotion, the Deputy
Commissioner of Police, DCP, in charge of Operations, in Lagos State.
Not only does the new CP know the Lagos terrain, he led several raids
against notorious kingpins, criminal gangs and their hideouts.
Here are 8 highlights you need to know about Imohimi, the new commissioner of Police in Lagos:
- Imohimi Edgar was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force, as a cadet
Assistant Superintendent of Police, on February 2, 1986, serving in
various commands and formations of the NPF within the country in several
capacities, and spending most of his days at the Lagos State Police
Command.
- A 1984 graduate of Art at the University of Jos, he went on to bag a
masters degree in Public and International Affairs at the University of
Lagos in 2004. Edgar is highly trained on Community and Intelligence
Gathering Policing; he organised the first Community Policing summits in
Ikeja GRA, Lagos State.
- Edgar has served as the Divisional Police Officer of Shomolu Police
Division, Seme Police Division, Ikeja and Surulere Police Divisions,
between 2003 and 2011, as a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, before
he was promoted and appointed the Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP,
in-charge-of the Area A, Command, Lagos He obtained a diploma degree
in Police Science.
- He also obtained a certificate of National Security for Nigeria
Defence Intelligence, at the Centre of Strategic Studies, Galilee
International Management Institute Israel and the Defence Intelligence
College Abuja in 2015, which necessitated his appointment as the ACP in
charge of the Intelligence at the Police Force Headquarters Abuja.
- He is an expert in Community Policing, and attended several courses
organised by the Department For International Development (DFID) United
Kingdom, in Lagos, Awka, Anambra States and Staff College Jos, Plateau
State, making him Community Policing in Nigeria.
- In 2010 as DPO Ikeja Division, he launched the first Community
Policing in Ikeja Lagos State. He hosted security stakeholders in Ikeja,
at Savoy Suite, GRA and lectured participants on how to assist the
police on Community Policing.
- His operations – Leading a joint security operation, involving
members of the Oodua Progress Congress, OPC, Ikorodu Local Vigilante,
Oyebo, the DSS, Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, traditionalists and
some local chiefs to tackle the menace of the Badoo cult group in
Ikorodu
- He played a major role in the rescue of the six kidnapped students
of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, Epe, who were abducted on May 25, 2017.
He mobilised policemen from the Anti-Robbery and Kidnapping units of
the Lagos Police, and their counterparts at the Marine Police to attack
and kill members of the kidnap gang that attempted to snatch some police
gunboats from the Marine Police Post in Ajah. He led member of the
Force that compelled abductors of the kidnapped Epe students to free
their captives in Ondo State.