New records set at Police Games

The biennial Police Games now has new records in 400 metres (women), 5000 metres (women) and the newly introduced Pool Vault (women).
The new record in 400m was set by W/PC Comfort Ekanem of Zone 2, Lagos, with a time of 53.56 seconds, shattering the old time record of 55.20 seconds set in 1990 Bauchi Police Games by W/Sgt (now Superintendent of Police) Benedict Itua.
In a similar vein, Mary Joseph of Zone 3 set a Games’ record of 20:00.43 seconds to erase the old 5000m record of 20:33.33 seconds set by Mercy Edward of Zone 5, at “Eko 2008” in Lagos.
Mauren Williams of Zone 4 scaled a height of 2.80m, to set a new games record in the newly introduced women pool vault.
Meanwhile, the overall medals table, as at the third day of the fiesta, indicates that Force Headquarters is still leading the other 12 Zones with 21 gold, 18 silver and 16 bronze medals.
FHQ is closely followed by Zone 2, Lagos, with 20 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze medals, while Zone 7 is third with 13 gold,14 silver and 19 bronze medals.