Police Arrest Soldier, Others, Deploy 6,480 personnel for Christmas

Leadership

24 December 2011

Police Arrest Soldier, Others, Deploy 6,480 personnel for Christmas

The Rivers State police command has arrested 24 suspects, including a girl and a soldier serving in the Joint Military Task-Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta region, over their involvement in armed robbery, kidnapping and other criminal acts in the state.

This is as the command announced that it had deployed 6,480 policemen to provide security across the state during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

Parading the suspects before journalists yesterday in Port Harcourt, the commissioner of police, Mr. Suleiman Abbah, said the soldier (names withheld) and five members of his gang were arrested when they attempted to kidnap a businessman in Port Harcourt.