Tactical Squad: Lagos CP assures safety despite residents’ harassment complaints

The Lagos Relate Commissioner of Police, Jimoh Olohundare, has reacted to allegations of the Tactical Squad harassing Lagosians worship the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
In an irregular chat with The Guardian, he said: “The Tactical Squad is below the supervision of my expose; they don’t work on their very have or in isolation. I have to correct the influence that Tactical Squad is worship SARS. Tactical Squad operational modality differs, and the officers were human rights compliant.
“There's no longer any query that folk imposing the legislation face criticism. You would perhaps be ready to suspect some collaboration with the folks committing the crime in this criticism. The Tactical Squad has stood out in reducing violent crime in the affirm, and slightly a replacement of sizzling spots and sad spots were liberalised, and folks are doing their enterprise peacefully. There would perhaps be one or two excesses, but we're doing our easiest to gather obvious the excesses are properly corrected.”
The Commissioner additionally said his leadership is constructing on the gains he met when he assumed station of labor as Lagos CP in February 2025, stressing, “Prevention is more healthy than treatment, so we work extra on prevention since you delight in gotten much less crime to handle when we prevent, and we are attempting to achieve out to communities, mainly by the media and public forums.”
He said: “I changed into as soon as greeted with the attend and enhance of the Lagos Relate governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, after I came on board. I treasure the Lagos Relate Governor for his big enhance, which has made our job more uncomplicated.
“We delight in got created an intervention crew to complement the work of the Speedily Response Squad (RRS), and it’s no longer going to be a rival to RRS.”
The Deputy Commander of RRS is now the Commander of the Eko Strike Power (ESF). They're working in synergy to gather obvious we manufacture the identical results.
“Equally, I met 21 Tactical Squad groups, and I delight in strengthened and elevated them to 30 to quilt the nooks and crannies of the affirm. We delight in got a zero rate of kidnapping in the affirm.”
When requested about the kidnapping in Ijede, Ikorodu, he said: “The Ijede incident is solely a one-off incident. Ijede aged to be below the Imota Tactical Squad, but I delight in now created a separate Tactical Squad for Ijede.
Ijede is a neighborhood contained in the creek, and those that commit such crimes are within the neighborhood. Since I resumed bigger than four months previously, Ijede is the appropriate incident now we delight in had. With the introduction of the Tactical Squad designated for Ijede, it has introduced it to a zero level, and members of the neighborhood are relaxed because many commendation letters were despatched to my station of labor.”
The CP said the crime rate in the affirm is terribly low, and the expose will manufacture on the successes and retain the tempo to gather obvious every Lagosian, Nigerian, and foreigner who passes by Lagos or comes to Lagos to enact enterprise is pleasant.