{"id":60960,"date":"2025-02-10T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60960"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:43:11","slug":"sars-is-gone-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/10\/sars-is-gone-police\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS is Gone \u2013 Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed speculation about the return of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), affirming that the unit remains dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi clarified on Monday that newly created state-level tactical squads are not a revival of SARS, emphasizing that each operates independently under its respective Commissioner of Police (CP).<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi reiterated that SARS was officially disbanded on October 11, 2020, following nationwide #EndSARS protests and assured the public that the decision remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun will discuss concerns over the conduct of officers in these Special Tactical Squads during a meeting with senior police officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IGP has empowered CPs and AIGs to address complaints and take disciplinary action where necessary. No infraction will be ignored,\u201d Adejobi stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed speculation about the return of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), affirming that the unit remains dissolved. Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi clarified on Monday that newly created state-level tactical squads are not a revival of SARS, emphasizing that each operates independently under its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60960","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60962,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60960\/revisions\/60962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}