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The first feminine Commissioner of Police to be posted to Kwara State since its creation in 1967, CP Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi has formally assumed office

She took over from the outgone Commissioner of Police, who was promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG Paul Odama.

CP Adelesi hails from Sagamu, within the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State and was appointed to the Nigeria Police Force on March 3, 1990, as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police.

She has labored in a number of Police instructions and formations inside and out of doors the nation, the place she held a number of Command positions at varied instances.

The CP attended Federal Government College Kaduna for her O Levels and A Levels Certificates.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma in English Language from Ogun State University (Now Olabisi Onabanjo) and an Advanced Diploma in Strategic Security and Infrastructure Protection from the University of Lagos.

CP Adelesi had served in varied difficult capacities throughout many States of the federation; she was on a United Nations peacekeeping mission to Liberia and Dafur.

She has introduced convention papers on the United Nations-sponsored convention, primarily for girls in peacekeeping missions in Mogadishu, Somalia.

In the course of her service to the nation, the Commissioner of Police held a number of positions, together with that of Divisional Crime Officer at Sabongeri Police Station, Katsina. Divisional Crime Officer, GRA Police Station, Katsina and Mokola police station, Ibadan Officer in cost of confidential registry, Ibadan; Command Provost Marshal, Ibadan; Divisional Traffic Officer Eleyele, Ibadan; Matron, Police Training School, Ibadan; Officer in cost of analysis and planning; and Officer in cost of the anti-human trafficking division, all in Ibadan, Oyo State.

CP Adelesi was Commandant, Police Training School, Eleyele Ibadan, and a second in Command, Area Command, Agodi Ibadan, all in Oyo State between 1991 and 2009.

She additionally served as commandant of the Police Girls Secondary School in Shanono, Kano State.

The new CP was the pioneer Commandant, Police Secondary School, Ukana, Akwa-Ibom State; Pioneer Commandant, Comprehensive Secondary School, Port-Harcout, Rivers State; and Officer in Charge General Investigation, Rivers State Police Command.

She held the place of Assistant Commissioner of Police Administration, Imo State Police Command. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Administration), Ogun StateDeputy Commissioner of Police (Administration), Osun StateDeputy Commissioner of Police (Administration), Police Cooperative, LagosDeputy Commissioner of Police (Administration), Kwara State, and Commissioner of Police, General Investigation Force Criminal Intelligence Department (FCID) Annex, Alagbon, earlier than her present posting because the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State.

CP Adelesi attended the next programs;“Advance Detective Course,Staff College, Jos.

Intermediate Leadership Command Course, Police Staff College, Jos

United Nations Police Commanders Course at the Swedish Armed Forces International Center (Sweden), Stockholm, Sweden.

Senior Leadership Command Course, Jos.”

The CP is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) USA and a Fellow of the Institute of Security, Nigeria (FISN).

She is a mom and spouse, her hobbies embody travelling, Reading, jogging, and Writing.

In a press release issued by the Commands Spokesperson, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, the newly deployed Police boss is a hardworking and detribalized skilled officer, who is able to give her greatest to make sure that the concord and peace that Kwara State is understood for usually are not truncated.

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