{"id":30717,"date":"2020-10-04T17:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30717"},"modified":"2020-10-04T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:49:33","slug":"igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints","title":{"rendered":"IGP bans SARS from patrols, checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Abubakar Adamu, has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS).<\/p>\n<p>The police force in a statement signed by PPRO, Frank Mba demanded that all stop and search duties and patrols by SARS be terminated with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>This is following the nationwide outcry by Nigerians over the harassment and killing of youths by SARS.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP also warned against invasion of privacy of citizens, unauthorized search of phones and laptops.<\/p>\n<p>The police boss ordered that no personnel should appear in mufti but uniforms during patrols or tactical assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the state that read: \u201cFSARS, STS, IRT &amp; other Tactical @PoliceNG Squads operating at Federal, Zonal &amp; Command levels are hereby BANNED from carrying out routine patrols &amp; other conventional low-risk duties \u2013 stop and search duties, checkpoints, roadblocks, traffic checks, etc with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Tactical Squads must also desist from the invasion of the privacy of citizens particularly through indiscriminate and unauthorized search of mobile phones, Laptops and other smart devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Abubakar Adamu, has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS). The police force in a statement signed by PPRO, Frank Mba demanded that all stop and search duties and patrols by SARS be terminated with immediate effect. This is following the nationwide outcry by Nigerians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":20519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[300,1281],"class_list":["post-30717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-igp","tag-nigeria-police-force"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IGP bans SARS from patrols, checkpoints - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Abubakar Adamu, has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IGP bans SARS from patrols, checkpoints\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Abubakar Adamu, has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-04T17:49:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Acting-Inspector-General-of-Police-IGP-Mr-Mohammed-Adamu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"IGP bans SARS from patrols, checkpoints\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-04T17:49:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints\"},\"wordCount\":178,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Acting-Inspector-General-of-Police-IGP-Mr-Mohammed-Adamu.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"IGP\",\"Nigeria Police Force\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/igp-bans-sars-from-patrols-checkpoints\",\"name\":\"IGP bans SARS from patrols, checkpoints - 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