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Tuesday 17 January 2017

Police officer has no right to check your mobile phone –Lagos Police PRO


The Nigerian Police force has reiterated that officers of the command are not empowered with the right to search mobile phones of citizens during their routine stop and search exercise on the roads.
 Nigerians for a long time has asked the question if it is right for police officers to search mobile phones during the routing stop and search exercise on the road.

This remake was made during an interview with the Lagos state police PRO, Dolapo Badmus who shed more light on the issue saying that the act is totally wrong.
In her own words
“Your phone is private; it is your private property because people do a lot of private stuffs on their mobile phones so it is wrong.  Police officers have no right to search your phone except there is a reasonable ground to do so.
“To me it is like someone seeing you on the road and orders you to pull off your trousers that he wants to search your pant, that is how I feel whenever I hear about police searching someone’s phone. It is totally wrong unless you are a subject of investigation.” She said
“We have been working on stopping that with our men, and the ones that have been going   against the rules the leadership of the command will never spear them.” She concluded


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