‎The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has appointed, Imohimi Edgal, as the new Commissioner of Police in-charge-of the Lagos State Command. Edgal was amongst the senior officers who were recently promoted by the Police Service Commission.  ‎He will be replacing CP Fatai Owoseni who had been redeployed to Force Headquater Abuja as the CP Administration. ‎

Edgal, a seasoned police officer, who was until his promotion, the  Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, in-charge-of Operations, in Lagos State, was one of those who played a major role in curtailing the activities of the dreaded Badoo cult and militants carring out kidnappings within  Ikorodu and its adjoining communities.

He enlisted in the Nigeria Police, as a cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, on February 2, 1986, serving  in various commands and formations of the NP within the country in several capacities, spending most of his days at the Lagos State Police Command.

A 1984 graduate of Art at the University of Jos, who went on to bag a master degree in Public and International Affairs at the University of Lagos in 2004, Edgal is highly trained on Community and Intelligence Gathering Policing, enabling him in organizing the first Community Policing summits in Ikeja GRA, Lagos State.

It’s on record that Edgal, who served as the Divisional Police Officer of Shomolu Police Division, Seme Police Division, Ikeja and Surelere Police Divisions, between the year 2003 and 2011, as a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, before he was promoted and appointed  the Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, in-charge-of the Area A, Command, Lagos, ‎obtained a diploma degree in Police Science.  ‎

He also obtained a certificate of National Security for Nigeria Defense Intelligence,  at  the Center of Strategic Studies,  Galilee International Management Institute Israel and the Defense Intelligence College Abuja in 2015, which necessitated his appointment as the ACP in-charge-of  the Intelligence at the Police Force Headquarters Abuja.

An expert in Community Policing,  Edgal attended several courses organised by the  Department For International Development, DFID, United Kingdom, in Lagos, Awka, Anambra States and Staff College Jos, Plateau State, making him Community Policing in Nigeria. In 2010, Edgal, as  DPO Ikeja Division, launched the first Community Policing in Ikeja Lagos State. He hosted security stakeholders in Ikeja, at Savoy Suite, GRA and lectured participants on how to assist the police on Community Policing. Following his promotion to the rank of a DCP and his appointment as DC operations Lagos State, the immediate past CP Lagos, Fatai Owoseni who knew of his record in community policing appropriately utilized his expertise in fighting crime in the state.  Edgal through his community policing experience, mobilized a joint security operation, involving members of the Oodua Progress Congress, OPC, Ikorodu Local Vigilante, Oyebo, the Departments of State Security, DSS,   Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, ‎traditionalists and some  local chiefs in Ikorodu, in tackling the menace of the Badoo cult group, which has killed several persons in Ikorodu and Ogijo areas of Lagos and Ogun State. He was also said to have played a huge role in the successful rescue of the six kidnapped students, of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, Epe, who were abducted on May 25, 2017, by gunmen who invaded the school.  Edgal was said to have mobilized policemen from the Anti-Robbery and Kidnapping units of the Lagos Command Police, and their counterparts at the Marine Police in  attacking and killing members of the kidnap gang when they attempted to snatch some police  gunboats, from the Marine Police Post  in Ajah.  The leader of the kidnap gang, known as America was killed in that operation, his death  and the subsequent arrest of relatives of his gang members compelled members of gang in  releasing  the kidnapped students in Ondo State.

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