The Lagos State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has expressed dismay at estate security personnel who insist on carrying out routine checks before giving police operatives access to their premises.
He made this known in a recent post on his X handle on Friday.
This was in response to an X user @AyBenson who accused police operatives from the Ogombo Division of brutally beating up his estate security man on Wednesday, April 24
The X user claimed that the security man was only carrying out his “due diligence” when “they jumped out numbering about 10 and descended on him with their guns to the extent of breaking his teeth and injuring him.”
Hundeyin said, “It is actually sad and worrisome that when an estate resident calls the police to respond to an ongoing incident within an estate, police officers in full uniform and police-branded patrol vehicles are stopped at the gate by the estate security men to ‘carry out due diligence in checks,’ to use your exact words.
“Obstructing police officers in the discharge of their duties is an offense. Resisting arrest is equally an offense. Minimal force will be applied where absolutely necessary.
“For other claims about actions of police officers residing in the estate, it is curious that the estate residents association has never called the attention of the Lagos State Police Command to them, especially considering that we have an open channel of communication with all CDAs and estate residents associations mostly through their Chief Security Officers.”
