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| LAGOS CP, UMAR MANKO |
A total of 39 policemen were killed in
Lagos State last year, while the police in turn recovered 16,034 ammunition,
arrested 472 suspected armed robbers and killed about 146 in a gun duel during
the numerous armed robbery operations that occurred in the state, a newly
compiled data have revealed.
This is just as assaults, stealing,
obtaining of money under false pretence, rape, murder, forgery, burglary and
armed robbery topped the crime chart in the state last year with 1,200, 550,
1,161, 132, 111, 178, 200 and 154 figures respectively.
The state Commissioner of Police, Umar
Manko, made this disclosure yesterday at the state command during a world press
briefing to intimate journalists on the achievements of the command in 2013,
security and otherwise.
In the comprehensive data, the commissioner
revealed that while 39 gallant officers were gunned down in 154 armed robbery
operations across the state, the police in turn killed over 146 armed and
arrested 472
Also, the data contained the list of 111
murder cases with March, April, June, September, October and November 2013
taking the lead with 20 cases each, while 390 armed robbery operations were
foiled across the state.
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