A new Commissioner of Police, CP Okon Ene, has assumed duties at the Benue State Police Command in Makurdi.

The new CP who resumed duty on Thursday was a one-time Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations in Benue Command and a fellow of the National Defence College (FDC), Abuja.

He is a graduate of Political Science from the University of Ibadan and was enlisted as Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) on March 15, 1988, as a pioneer set of the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil Kano State.

The new Commissioner in a statement by the Police Public relations Officer, DSP Moses Yamu, assured “the people of the state of the renewed resolve by Officers and Men of the Command to rid the State of all forms of criminality, in synergy with other Security agencies and cooperation of the general public through rendering credible information to the Police”.