SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Public Relations Officer for the Lagos State Police Command, has voiced dissatisfaction with estate security officers who insist on doing routine checks before granting police entry to their premises.
He announced this in a recent post on his X account on Friday.
This was in response to an X user, @AyBenson, who accused police officers from the Ogombo Division of violently beating up his estate security worker on Wednesday, April 24.
The X user said that the security guard was simply performing 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 stated, “It’s very sad and worrying that When an estate resident phones the police to report an ongoing incident within the estate, police officers in full uniform and police-branded patrol vehicles are halted at the gate by estate security to ‘carry out due diligence in checks,’ to use your precise words.
“Obstructing police officers in the performance of their duty is a crime. Resisting arrest is also an offense. Wherever possible, the least amount of force will be used.
“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 given that we have an open channel of communication with all CDAs and estate residents associations, mostly through their Chief.
