Police recover 36 stolen vehicles in Lagos
The Lagos Insist Police Present says it has recovered 36 autos suspected to had been stolen in Lagos and different ingredients of the country, including some traced to world smuggling routes.
Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, disclosed this throughout a press briefing on the allege headquarters in Ikeja on Wednesday. The recovered autos, that are of diverse makes and models, had been displayed alongside different seized displays.
Per Jimoh, lots of the autos had been intercepted while being moved out of Lagos, allegedly en path to world borders for illegal export. Others had been recovered from felony hideouts or places where they had already been sold.
“A majority of these autos had been stolen by drivers entrusted with them, while others had been recovered in operations focused on automobile theft syndicates,” he said.
The police also confirmed that loads of of the autos had been linked to fraud circumstances and illicit actions arresting felony gangs. The commissioner added that 70 extra autos are for the time being in police custody pending extra investigation.
He told participants of the final public whose autos had been stolen — either at gunpoint or thru insider theft — to hunt suggestion from the express police allege for that you might possibly possibly possibly factor in identification and recovery.
Jimoh famed that while the staunch preference of arrests used to be no longer disclosed, suspects are in custody and will be prosecuted once investigations are concluded. Various firearms had been also reportedly recovered throughout the operations.
The commissioner outlined that the most modern progress stems in piece from the work of the Eko Strike Force, a specialised tactical group created to answer rapid to known security threats. The unit, which started with 5 groups, now has 9, and operates alongside the Mercurial Response Squad (RRS).
Jimoh added that the typical police response time to trouble calls has dropped to about 5 minutes, a pattern he attributed to increased coordination and group give a enhance to.
He acknowledged the position of public intelligence in attaining most modern breakthroughs and reiterated the allege’s dedication to securing lives and property across the express.
