Personnels Prohibited From Going Inside Offenders' vehicles - FRSC

Dauda Biu

Dauda Biu, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), claims that it is now against the law for officers to enter suspects' cars while they are being seized

Biu made the clarification while denouncing a "wrongly couched memo currently making the rounds," according to Bisi Kazeem, FRSC spokeswoman.

The representative stated that the initial instruction was published in a memo with the reference number FRSC/HQ/OPS/94/VOLXVI/094 and was dated September 12, 2023. The memo's heading, he continued, was "Immediate ban on the placing of staff in offenders' vehicles to escort for Impoundment." However, this was taken to mean that the corps was not allowed to impounded any vehicles at all, Kazeem told NAN.

"For the avoidance of doubt, the corps marshal's directive was a correction of an earlier one saying impoundment of vehicles have been banned, captured under paragraph III of the aforementioned memo.

"However, the corps marshal only banned placing of staff in offenders' vehicles to escort for impoundment by patrol teams under any guise of traffic infraction committed with immediate effect. "The corps regrets any confusion caused by the earlier memo, and would like to inform the public that the current position of the corps was as outlined in the corrected directive."