The Lagos State Police Command dismisses Sergent Ekpo Shimuyere, attached to Sogunle Division, for allegedly extorting a young man of ninety-eight thousand naira.
It says the dismissed sergeant collected the phone of his victim and used a POS operator to transfer ninety-eight thousand naira out of the one hundred thousand naira in the young man's bank account.
Its Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the Provost Department of the command had already disrobed the dismissed sergeant.
Hundeyin noted that the action of the policeman was contrary to the ethics of the profession.
The police spokesman recounted: "Police got the complaint from the victim, and the officer denied the crime when he was contacted. The command placed him under detention so that he would not tamper with the evidence.
"We wrote to his bank and obtained his statement of account. We were able to trace the money to where the POS operator transferred it before transferring it to the officer's account.
"We followed due process to get his account. The victim was invited in the course of the investigation, and he testified.
"The POS operator was also invited, and he said the officer requested him to transfer the money from the victim's account to another one.
"The Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Idowu Owohunwa, has reviewed the orderly room procedure of the officer with Force No. 461654, attached to the Sogunle Police Division and has approved the punishment of dismissal from the force," he said.
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