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New commissioner of police Assumes Duty In Rivers State



 The Rivers State Police Command now have a new Commissioner of Police. 


He is CP Eboka Friday who  hails from Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

Mr Friday took over from Mr. Joseph Mukan who was recently promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police and redeployed to Zone 8 Headquarters Lokoja as the Zonal Commander.

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree Bsc (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka, Enugu State.

He was appointed into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in 1988 and on completion of  his training was posted to Delta State, where he did his one year compulsory attachment and later served in various  Police Departments across the country as follows:-

  Divisional Police Officer in about six  Divisions in  
  Lagos State, including Lekki.
  Assistant Commissioner of Police, Explosive Ordinance 
Disposal  (EOD) Force Headquarters, Abuja.

  Assistant Commissioner of Police, Operations, Bayelsa State.

  Area Commander Owo, Ondo State.
  Deputy Commissioner of Police, Safer Highway, Abuja.
  Deputy Commissioner of Police, Finance and  
  Administration, DC ‘A’ Kano
  Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Zone 2  
  Headquarters, Lagos.

  He was the immediate past Commissioner of Police, Railway Police Command, from where he was found professionally competent and redeployed to the State as the 42nd Commissioner of Police.

CP Eboka Friday is happily married with children. His hobbies include, reading, football and Golf etc

The new commissioner of police promised to bring his wealth of experience to bear in  the state Command and urged all Rivers people to cooperate with him in the task ahead to make the state free from crime and criminality



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