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RRS Rewards Police Officers who Assisted Woman in Labour

Matilda Omonaiye/

Commander of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), DCP Tunji Dish, today rewarded four police officers who assisted a pregnant woman in labour and her husband to the hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos.

Disu while presenting the officers with cash gifts, encouraged them to continue being worthy ambassadors of the police.

He also urged other officers to “emulate the gesture which is also their primary responsibility”.

The ceremony took place at the RRS headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja.

DCP Tunji Dish (right) presenting gifts to the officers

The state commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu had two days ago commended the RRS officers and their counterparts attached to the Area ‘A’ Command for the humanitarian service.

The officers had seen a man in distress at about 3am last Friday, when they were on normal patrol of their beat around Ikoyi. 

He was accosted and asked where he was heading that early during a lockdown. 

The man, impatiently blurted out that his wife was in labour and that he had been looking for vehicle for some time to no avail.

The officers hurriedly got him into their patrol vehicle after informing their Monitor at Area ‘A’ Command. 

They drove him to his residence and took him and his wife to a hospital in Obalende, Lagos where she delivered a baby girl.

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