PSC Elevates Leye Oyebade as DIG

Matilda Omonaiye/

One-time Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone XI, Mr Adeleye Oyebade, has been elevated as a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

Oyebade was elevated alongside 6,617 senior officers after weeks of deliberations led by the PSC Chairman, Alhaji Musiliu Smith.

Oyebade had served and recorded superlative achievements at various police formations in different capacities over the years. He was once voted as the Most Outstanding Commissioner of Police on Security Reforms and Good Leadership in Nigeria by the Senate Committee on Police Affairs.

He received several awards and commendations including the Nigerian Bar Association Award of Excellence, and the Award of Excellence given by the Inspector-General of Police in Bangladesh.

Oyebade has been an advocate of Intelligence-Led Policing and Community Partnership, and exponent of Training and Re-training of the Police Personnel as a tool for capacity building and development of the workforce to face the modern challenges of Policing, especially in Nigeria’s re-nascent democracy.

He has also championed the cause of Standardized Recruitment Policy aimed at surfing the best fitted for the system, to ensure proper service delivery with an emphasis on building people-oriented police that will have respect for the rule of law and tenets of Fundamental Human Rights.

His gospel included Police Accountability/Ensuring Discipline as the bedrock of the Force; Strong Inter-Agency Synergy aimed at encouraging complementary policing of the nation; Collaboration/Cooperation with International/Local NGOs aimed at meaningful intervention in Police Reform generally, especially in personnel development, institutional restructuring and research-based policing ideologies.

Oyebade had served as CP, Force Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (FCIID) Abuja; the CP, National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, from January to December, 2018; Commandant, Police College Kaduna, October to December, 2017; CP in charge of Railway Command Headquarters, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, in September, 2017; CP Abia State Command from August, 2016 to September, 2017; CP, Oyo State Command from September, 2015 to August, 2016; CP, Maritime Command, Force Headquarters (FHQ) Annex, Lagos, from April, 2014 to August, 2015.

Armed with a 1985 Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Sociology, specializing in Criminology from the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and a 1983 Bachelor of Science (Sociology), specializing in Sociology also from UNILAG, buoyed with several certificates from professional courses and workshops including the Senior Executive Course 40/2018 at NIPSS, Kuru, Jos, where he participated in Leadership, Policy and Strategic Course from February 2018; Oyebade took part in the Train the Trainers Workshop on “Leadership Performance Evaluation for Senior Police Officers” under the Police Reforms Programme at PSC, Jos, in 2012, a “Higher Management” course organized by the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) at PSC, Jos, focusing on Service Delivery/Leadership and Accountability in 2009; Senior Command Course No. 31/2009 at Police Staff College, Jos, also in 2009. He tutored in International Policing Strategies at the INTERPOL Conference in Lyon, France in 2005, and attended the INTERPOL Conference in Berlin, West-Germany on International Policing Cooperation/Strategies in September 2005.

Oyebade had also participated in the Utstein (U4) Anti-Corruption Training Workshop, at the Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Abuja, and studied the Complexities of the Corruption Phenomenon; Cause and Explanations of Corruption, Strategies, Approaches and Basic Reforms and International Cooperation/Legislation in October 2005.

He attended the “Survival Awareness in Service” workshop organized by the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Victoria Island, Lagos, addressing Policing and Personal Safety issues in February 2002; the Intermediate Command Course No. 42/2001 at PSC, Jos/Staff College, Jaji, where he received training in Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW) in July 2001; the Management Workshop for Intermediate Command Course No. 42/2001 organized by the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) at PSC, Jos in June, 2001; a workshop on “Networking the MMIA Security Agencies – The Making of a Friendly Airport”, at Onyx Plaza, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, addressing the issue of Management of Airport Security and Safety in Synergy with other Security Agencies in November 2000 and another workshop same year on “Airport Security – An Integral of National Security” organized by Centurion Security & Safety Consult in Association with FAAN, at MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.

Oyebade took the Cadet Officers Course 1/86, receiving Basic Officers Training (including Police Mobile Force Training at Gwoza and Citizenship and Leadership Training/Course, Shere Hills, Jos, in 1986. He came first in the Final Examination of the Cadet Officers Course 1/86, in a Class of 107, at the Police College, Ikeja in May, 1987.

His accomplishments also include the establishment of the first ICT e-Training Centre (Info-Tech Centre), to Restore Professional Excellence and High Investigative Skill on Internet Fraud Related Cases, as the Deputy Commissioner of Police at the Lagos State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti – Yaba, Lagos (2007 – 2008).

Oyebade initiated the Memo that later actualized the establishment of the Police Chaplaincy in the Nigeria Police Force, as the Principal Staff Officer II to the IGP in 2005. He served as the Secretary of the Committee under the Leadership of DIG Musa Abdulkadri (RTD) that reviewed the Government White Paper on Alhaji M. Danmadami led Presidential Committee on Nigeria Police Reform in 2006.

As Second-in-Command in Abia State, motivation of personnel, coordination and enhancement of Inter-Agency Collaboration was among his achievements that led to the reduction in High Level Crimes and zero tolerance for heinous crimes in the state, including armed robbery, kidnappings, child stealing and cultism between 2014 and 2015.

He was the Secretary to the Board of Enquiry under the Chairmanship of IGP Mike Mbama Okiro (Rtd), which was set up to unravel the killings of six suspected persons (APO Six), in questionable and controversial circumstances in June 2005. He was also the Police Representative on the National Governing Board of the NYSC (February 2005 – May 2007) and Police Representative on the National Ports Decongestion/Overtime Cargo Committee that Sanitized the General Functioning of The Onne Port, in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State in 2006.