BY: ADEKUNLE OLUWAFUNMILAYO
PROFILE OF THE BRAND NEW ACTING INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE - OLATUNJI RIDWAN DISU @TunjiDisu1 Place Of Birth: Lagos, Nigeria. LGA: Lagos Island. State Of Origin: Lagos State. Date Of Appointment: 18th May 1992. Appointed As: Assistant Superintendent of Police
EXPERIENCE:
• Assistant Inspector-General of police (AIG) In charge of Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Annex, Alagbon, Lagos. February 2026 till date
• Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Special Protection Unit (SPU), Force Headquarters, Abuja - March 2025 – February 2026
• FCT Police Command, October 2024 – March 2025
• Commissioner of Police (CP), Rivers State Police Command, November 2023 - October 2024.
• Commissioner of Police, Admin and Intelligence, Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) March 2023 – June 2023
• Deputy Commissioner of Police Head, Intelligence Response Team (IRT), August 2021 – March 2023 • Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP Admin Operations, Force Headquarters, 2021
• Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Lagos, 2015 – 2021
• Assistant Commissioner of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Rivers State, 2014 – 2015
• Officer in Charge, Anti-Kidnapping Rivers State, 2014 – 2015
• Officer in Charge, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ondo State/ Oyo State, 2011 – 2014
• Divisional Police Officer, Ondo State, 2007 – 2013
• Officer in Charge Training, Nigerian Police Peace–Keeping Department, 2006 – 2007
• Directing Staff, Nigerian Police Academy, Kano, 2005
• Aide-De-Camp (ADC) to the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu 1999
• Officer in Charge, Anti-Fraud State Criminal Investigation Department, Katsina, 1993 – 1998
EDUCATION:
- MSC in Entrepreneurship, NOUN (2023)
- MSC in Criminology, Security and Legal Psychology, LASU (2022)
- Advanced Diploma in Forensic Investigation and Criminal Intelligence, UNILAG (2019)
- MSC, Public Administration, Adekunle Ajasin University (2010)
- PGD International Relations and Strategic Studies, LASU (2000)
- B.A English (Education), LASU (1990)
AWARDS:
- Best Commissioner of Police of the Year at the 2024 Inspector General Police (IGP) Recognition Awards.
- RRS was awarded the Most Outstanding Urban Crime Control Police Command in West and Central Africa in 2019.
- Lagos was named the best security and most safety-conscious state in Africa by the Security Watch Africa (SWA) in Johannesburg in 2016.
- (SWA) Best Anti-Crime Police Squad in West Africa, 2016
- One of the longest-serving and best Divisional Police Officers in Ondo State.
- Most Outstanding Police Operational Officer in West Africa, 2016.
- Most Outstanding Police Operational Officer in Africa, 2016.
- Crime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria (CRAN) Man of the Year 2018. - Most Outstanding Anti-Crime Police Chief in the West and Central Africa category, while the unit. - Best Commissioner of Police of the Year at the 2024.
PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
-Member, International Academy of Forensics.
- Certificate in Personal Protection.
- Member, National Association of Investigative Specialists, United States of America (NAIS).
- Member, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).
- Member, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM).
- Member, International Association of Chiefs of Police.
OTHERS:
- Successfully led the first-ever Nigerian Police contingent on the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to quell the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, in 2005.
- Third dan black belt in Judo with many medals.
National Chairman, Nigeria Police Judo Association.
- Silver medal at the 2022 US Open judo championships.
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