The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) corps marshal, Dauda Biu, has stated that no members of the agency are permitted to enter the vehicles of offenders while they are being seized
Biu made the clarification while dismissing a memo that was “wrongly couched,” according to a statement made by FRSC spokesperson Bisi Kazeem. He claimed that the memo in question relates to a directive given to commanding officers that ordered a stop to the practice of putting patrol agents in offenders’ cars while they were impounded.
According to the spokesperson, the initial directive was published in a memo with the reference number FRSC/HQ/OPS/94/VOLXVI/094 and was dated September 12, 2023.
The memo, he continued, was titled “Immediate ban on the placing of staff in offenders vehicles to escort for Impoundment.”.
“However, the corps took this to mean that it was forbidden entirely to impounded vehicles. For the avoidance of doubt, the corps marshal’s directive was a correction to an earlier one that stated that impoundment of vehicles was prohibited, as noted in paragraph III of the aforementioned memo.
The corps marshal, however, only forbade the immediate placement of staff in offenders’ vehicles to be escorted for impoundment by patrol teams under any pretense of traffic infraction.
The corps apologizes for any confusion the earlier memo may have caused and would like to let everyone know that it was the corps’ current position as stated in the revised directive.
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