{"id":59934,"date":"2025-01-25T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59934"},"modified":"2025-01-25T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:44:29","slug":"refusing-police-entry-exit-from-your-home-is-an-offence-police-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/25\/refusing-police-entry-exit-from-your-home-is-an-offence-police-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusing Police Entry, Exit from Your Home Is an Offence \u2014Police PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe, has stated that refusing police officers entry or exit from a residence is an offence.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to a viral video on X showing young men denying access to individuals dressed as police officers, Edafe noted that while wearing masks is prohibited in the Nigeria Police Force, blocking officers&#8217; access is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed the men claiming to be content creators, not internet fraudsters, and expressing unease over the masked appearance of the armed men. One officer fired a shot before another scaled the fence to enter the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the situation, Edafe wrote, \u201cWearing a mask as a policeman is a red flag and not allowed in policing. However, locking the police either outside or inside is an offence on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed investigations were ongoing to verify the location and details of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Edafe also questioned the men&#8217;s assertion about not being fraudsters when no such accusation had been made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe, has stated that refusing police officers entry or exit from a residence is an offence. Reacting to a viral video on X showing young men denying access to individuals dressed as police officers, Edafe noted that while wearing masks is prohibited in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59936,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions\/59936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}