Patience Ibekwe Abdullah | |
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Born | 1963 |
Known for | Deputy Inspector General of police |
Parent | Mike Ibekwe |
Patience Ibekwe Abdullah (born 1963) is the former Deputy Inspector-General of Police in Nigeria. Before her promotion to a Deputy Inspector General of Police, she was an Assistant Inspector General of Police at the Office of the National Security Adviser, The presidency, Abuja where she contributed to the maintenance of national security. She also served as the commissioner of police in Ebonyi state Nigeria in 2015. As a Commissioner of Police, she dismantled police check points on state roads following complaints from the public that police officers in the check points were corrupt.[1] she also introduced different programmes to reduce crime including operation ‘Show of force' and operation ‘Walk down crime'. she retired from Nigerian Police Force on 28 January 2019