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End SARS: Police declare war on ‘hoodlums’, arrest 750 in Lagos mass raid

The Lagos Police Command said they suspects were picked up raids across the state on Sunday.

The command stated that the raids were carried out simultaneously on identified black spots, believed to be the hideouts of criminals and hoodlums across the 14 Area Commands in Lagos State.

The police spokesperson, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in statement on Sunday, said the Lagos State Police command relaunched its Anti Crime Strategies to curb crimes and criminality across the state and to solidify the security architecture of the State.

He noted that the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the police operatives to raid the identified black spots as he had earlier warned and directed police officers and men to move against lawlessness and criminality in Lagos as he affirmed the zeal of the command to sustain the operations even beyond the yuletide season.

 

Ben Idah

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