The incident happens less than two months after some officers were arrested in the state for allegedly maltreating a woman after a video of the incident went viral.
The Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Wale Abbas on Tuesday ordered the detention of some police officers in the command for allegedly assaulting some residents in the state.
The police spokesperson in the state, Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in a statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, said the officers were seen in a viral video assaulting the residents.In the posted on Twitter, a police officer is seen using a plank to beat an unidentified person while another officer holding a plank is seen chasing another, apparently a motorcyclist, according to a background voice in the video.He did not also disclose when the incident occurred and what led to the assault by the officers, an action he described as “unprofessional”.
“It is not in the command’s character to assault members of the public who we are supposed to protect. More so, planks are not part of police accoutrements, and it is absolutely unprofessional of them to assault members of the public in whatever guise,” Mr Edafe said.maltreatingThe victim, a half-naked woman, could be seen in the video crying out for help as police officers held her down on the ground while using a rope to tie her hands behind her back.
An officer was seen in the video stamping on the woman’s foot as she struggled on the ground, this newspaper reported in March.
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