{"id":77264,"date":"2025-10-23T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77264"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:25:19","slug":"fct-police-redeploy-officer-after-viral-slap-video-by-onyeanya-ebere-immaculata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/fct-police-redeploy-officer-after-viral-slap-video-by-onyeanya-ebere-immaculata\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Redeploy Officer After Viral Slap Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has redeployed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), of Ushafa Division after a video showing him slapping a man during an arrest went viral, sparking public outrage.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police Commissioner Miller Dantawaye condemned the officer\u2019s actions as \u201cunacceptable and contrary to the ethics of the Nigeria Police Force,\u201d ordering his redeployment to the command headquarters pending investigation.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police PRO, SP Josephine Adeh, said the Commissioner reminded all officers to remain professional, courteous, and law-abiding, warning that misconduct or abuse of power would attract strict disciplinary measures.<\/p>\n<p>The command also urged residents to cooperate with police and report any cases of misconduct to strengthen public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has redeployed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), of Ushafa Division after a video showing him slapping a man during an arrest went viral, sparking public outrage. FCT Police Commissioner Miller Dantawaye condemned the officer\u2019s actions as \u201cunacceptable and contrary to the ethics of the Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77264","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=77264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77317,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77264\/revisions\/77317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}