The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, on Thursday met with traffic officers in the state with their respective Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers and the Officer-in-Charge of the Motor and Traffic Division of the command on the plans to have better traffic management in the state.
He ordered traffic officers to change the duty shifts of the traffic personnel in the state to cater for both day and night traffic management.
Odumosu also directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Department of Operations, DCP Ahmed Kontangora, to issue a directive implementing the new 10pm to 10am, night duty and 10am to 10pm morning duty shifts at strategic places across the state to ease traffic problems.
The police chief also ordered that operation officers at various divisions should work with the personnel on night duty for protection and quick response to traffic incidences.
Operational and tactical units will now work with the Motor and Traffic Division of the command in order to tackle traffic robbery in the state, while police power bikers and personnel of the Rapid Response Squad will now mount constant surveillance to combat traffic robbery in the state.
Meanwhile, it appears the Commissioner of Police’s strategy has paid off as officers of the Rapid Response Squad on Thursday arrested four suspected traffic robbers around Abiola Garden area of Ojota.
Acting on intelligence gathered on operations of criminals around Ketu axis, the CP deployed a surveillance team from the Rapid Response Squad, led by the Commander, CSP Yinka Egbeyemi, to monitor the entire Ikorodu road axis in reaction to series of complaints of early morning robbery attacks on motorists, including the residents around Owode-Onirin, Mile 12, Ketu and Ojota axes.
According to a statement by the command, the surveillance team was on a decoy at about 6:30am beside Abiola Garden when the suspected criminals came out with dangerous weapons in an attempt to rob the policemen, demanding for their wallets and other valuables.
They were all apprehended.
The suspects are Adewale Ismaila, 30; Chinadu Okafor, 26; Tote Victor, 19; and Abdulahi Olalere, aka Orobo, 20.
One of the suspected traffic robbers, Abdulahi Olalere, confessed to belong to a robbery gang which specialises in attacking and robbing innocent motorists of their belongings in the early hours along Ikorodu Road.
He also confirmed that his gang was responsible for the early morning robbery attacks on innocent motorists around China Town and tipper garage by Ketu area of Ikorodu Road on March 23, 2021.
Olalere had just recently been released from a Correctional Centre after spending six months in jail for same robbery incidents in 2020.
The suspects have all been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba for investigation.
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