The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the deployment of 37 Police Commissioners to State Commands and the Federal Capital Territory.

It said that the deployment was in line with Section 215 of the 1999 Constitution, which empowers the commission to appoint officers to states as Commissioners of Police.

Affected in the deployment are former Federal Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, who has been deployed to Kogi State, and Ikechukwu Nwodibo to Taraba State, J. Habila, Abia State, Adejo Gabriel Adaji, Adamawa State, Muritala U. Mani, Akwa Ibom State, Karma Hosea Anambra State, Mohammed K. Mohammed, (Bauchi) and P. Okafor (Bayelsa), Dibai P. Yakadi, (Benue), J. Opadokun (Borno), Henry Fadairo (Cross River), Usman Bala Alkali (Delta), P. Abdalla (Ebonyi), Chris Ezike (Edo), Etop J. James (Ekiti), Mohammed Adamu (Enugu), Wilson Inalegwu (Federal Capital Territoty), Austin Iwar (Gombe), T. Lakanu (Imo), U. Tilli Abubakar (Jigawa), U.U. Shehu (Kaduna), M. Katsina (Kano), U. Abdullahi (Katsina), Yakubu O. Jubrin (Kebbi), E. Amadasun (Kwara), F. Owoseni (Lagos), Mohammed Sani Usman (Nasarawa), Abubakar Marafa (Niger), Abdulmajid Ali (Ogun), M. Ogbodu (Ondo), K. Shodipo (Osun), Leye Oyebade (Oyo), Nasiru Oki (Plateau), Hyelasinda Kimo Musa (Rivers), Salisu F. Abdullahi (Sokoto), Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim (Yobe), and Femi Ogunbayode (Zamfara).