Ayodele Sonubi, the former Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department in Iyaganku, Oyo State, was appointed Commissioner of Police over the weekend.
The award ceremony occurred at Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Peacekeeping Hall, Force Headquarters, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force’s spokesman, Dr Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police, also ordered CP Sonubi’s immediate deployment to Oyo Police Command.
He will succeed Adebola Hamzat, the command’s departing Police Commissioner, who has been promoted to Assistant Inspector General of Police.
CP Sonubi joined the Nigeria Police Force as a cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1992.
Between 1994 and 1995, he served as Divisional Traffic Officer/Divisional Crime Officer in ‘C’ Division, Ilorin, and from 1995 to 2004, he was Unit Commander of the Police Mobile Force in Calabar, Port Harcourt, and Uyo.
Sonubi also served as O/C CIB in the Abia State Command, O/C Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Rivers State, Commander of the Joint Task Force Team in United Nations Missions in Liberia, and Divisional Police Officer in Abia, Cross River, Ogun, and Oyo States.
After being promoted to Assistant Commissioner of Police, CP Sonubi was appointed Area Commander at Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja; Maitama in Abuja; Area ‘N’ in Ikorodu, Lagos; and Agodi in Ibadan.
When he became Deputy Commissioner of Police, he worked as DC Admin., Airwing, Lagos in 2021, DC CID in Ekiti State from 2021 to 2022, and DC CID, Iyaganku, Ibadan, from March 2022 till his elevation to Commissioner of Police.
In the United States, he took courses such as SPO Traffic Management, PMF Unit Operation Training, Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) Operation Training, Community Policing, Counter-Violent Extremism, and Crisis Leadership Training.
CP Sonubi is a member of the University of Lagos Alumni Association, the International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell, USA, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in the United States.
