According to Adewale Osifeso, the Police Public Relations Officer, the new CP has worked in numerous roles as a police officer previous to his new appointment.
"CP Hamzat has held and served in various command and staff positions, including but not limited to Officer in Charge of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB), Divisional Crime Officer at Funtua Police Divisional Headquarters in Katsina State, Divisional Police Officer at Danja Police Divisional Headquarters in Katsina State, and 2i/c Operations at the Department of Operations (DOPs) in Katsina State Command," according to the statement.
Other positions held by CP Hamzat include Divisional Police Officer at 'A' Divisional Police Headquarters in Jos, Plateau State, Personal Assistant to DIG FCID, DIG Abimbola Jolade Ojomo (Rtd), 2i/c State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Jos, Plateau State, Staff Officer InfoTech at the Department of ICT in FHQ, Commandant of Police Secondary School in Akpabuyo, Calabar, ACP Promotions at FORSEC, FHQ, Abuja, and DCP DFA at Sokoto State Police Command.
He has also served as DCP DFA at Enugu State Police Command, DCP SCID at Osun State Police Command, DCP SCID at Ondo State Police Command, and CP Border Patrol Force at FHQ, Abuja, where he made significant contributions to the fight against the spread of small arms and light weapons into the country from troubled Sub-Saharan African states.
CP Adebola Ayinde Hamzat is a well-known investigator and intelligence professional whose operational experience and core intelligence abilities earned him commendable duty tours in the United Nations Missions in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Timor Leste (East Timor).
He was Chief of the Special Investigation Unit Regional Investigations in the Prizren Region, Chief of Regional Investigation in Ferizaj, and Chief of the War Crime Investigation Section, where he was specifically responsible for reducing criminal activities of rebels and insurgents through high-level intelligence analysis and technology-based forensics.
He was also the Serious Crimes Unit Team Leader at the National Investigations Department PNTL Hqtrs in Obrigado Dili.
In other news, the police have verified the arrest of 11 individuals in connection with various offenses perpetrated in various places around Oyo State.
The PPRO, Osifeso, claimed at a news conference at the State Police Command in Eleyele, Ibadan, that the suspects were captured in various places.
He said that seven of the eleven accused individuals were apprehended while attempting to steal a vehicle carrying commodities worth millions of naira.
According to the police, the recovered items include a white Nissan Cabster with the registration number AKD 362 YE, nineteen LG split air conditioners, five Hisense split air conditioners, six 43-inch smart televisions, seven Hisense refrigerators, twenty-four installation kits, eighteen AC hangers.
The statement further explains, "On 1st July 2023 at about 0200hrs, Hammed Oseni and Sodiq Olateju, both employees (drivers) of an undisclosed luxury furniture company in Lagos, were tasked with driving the company's Nissan CABSTER Space Bus loaded with air conditioners, television sets, and other hi-tech home appliances worth nine million naira (#9,000,000) from their Ikeja showroom in Lagos State to a destination in Ilorin, Kwara State.
However, when they arrived at a desolate spot along the Oyo/Ogbomoso expressway in the Offa-Metta area, five members of a criminal gang in a white Toyota Corolla car (registration number unknown), armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, attacked the driver and diverted the vehicle to an unknown destination.
As a consequence of this event, the Monitoring Unit acted, and two members of the criminal gang were detained at their different hideouts in Oyo town and Ibadan following a subtle information collection.
Further questioning showed that the suspects were the masterminds of similar illegal actions in the region, and that they had recently been freed from prison custody after serving time for a variety of criminal offences. Their candid confessions and subsequent information resulted to their criminal recipients' arrest."
