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CP Aina Adesola, Commissioner of Police, Delta State Police Command
The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Police Command, CP Aina Adesola, has ordered the immediate redeployment of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Jesse Police Division of Delta State.
The removal followed numerous extortion allegation against the DPO and some officers servicing under his division.
The CP also ordered the arrest and detention of a Police Constable serving under the Division on a similar allegation of extortion pending conclusion of investigation.
Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Delta State Police Command confirmed the development in a statement on Friday.
Edafe, a Superintendent of Police (SP), said the Command was aware of the viral video recording of a woman captured in a video recording, alleging that one officer Bright, officer Usman and the DPO Jesse extorted from her the sum of N2.5 million, with the hope that her brother, who is presently in custody, would be released.
Edafe said that after a careful examination of the video clip, “the command wishes to state as follows; that
on January 1, 2026, the youth leader of Jesse community arrested some suspects and brought them to the Police station. Among the suspects was the narrator’s younger brother, later identified as Israel Onojeruo, aged 20 years. The suspect was arrested based on the confession of another suspect, Okoro Desmond, who stated that he sold a gun to Israel Onojeruo. Suspects were later transferred to the State Anti-Cult Unit (SACU) for further investigation. However, on the allegation of extortion levelled against the DPO and two other officers of Jesse division, the Commissioner of Police, CP Aina Adesola, who is a community-friendly Police officers, listened to the complaint and took immediate action.
“The CP ordered the AC X-Squad to investigate the allegation leveled against the officers. The Constable identified as Bright in the video has been detained at the Command Headquarters, and the DPO has been removed and deployed to the Command Headquarters, pending the outcome of the investigation.” The Police image maker further stated that the removal of DPO was in response to a series of complaints of extortion and unprofessionalism levelled against him from different quarters.
The CP assured members of the public that if the officers are found guilty after investigation, or found to have acted in an unprofessional manner, they would be decisively dealt with in accordance with the extant laws as stipulated in the Police Act and regulations to serve as a deterrent to others.
The CP emphasized that the command under his leadership would not tolerate any form of extortion, intimidation, incivility to members of the public and unprofessionalism from officers in the command.
He therefore urged that members of the public to reach the command complaint response unit numbers in cases of complaint against police action by calling the following phone numbers
09011112311, 09155570008, 09064308018 and 09066575187
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