Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has ordered the immediate removal of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in the Meiran area of the Alimosho Local Government of the state for what the police termed leadership dereliction and supervisory ineptitude.

A statement by the Command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, said all the officers involved in an alleged extortion of a phone dealer of the sum of N200,000 have also been identified and are currently at the Command’s Headquarters to face orderly room trial.

Reports had alleged that the officers detained the phone dealer and his brother for not providing an identity card or the receipts for the iPhones found with his brother.

They were reportedly detained for alleged stealing and armed robbery until they negotiated their freedom with the sum of N200,000 which they paid to the police in cash.

Soon after they were freed, the phone dealers lodged official complaints which led to further investigations whereupon the police officers allegedly involved in the extortion were identified and arrested.