A Retired Police Officer in the Federal Capital Territory, Rahama Thomas says police work is teamwork, adding that “You can not do it alone. You have to go with others.”
The Officer who retired this week as a Division Police Officer, after 35 years in service, thanked her subordinates in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
She urged senior officers to continue to work hard while putting subordinate personnel through the job.
Sharing her working relationship between her Division and the FCT Administration while in service, said; “We were all good to each other – from the FCT Security Department to other stakeholders. We are attached to the complex, but we are the overall number one security.
“When anything happens – whether in the night or day, my phones are open 24/7, they call my lines; or they have any security report, they will call me direct, saying beef up security, this is what is going to happen. And I will call my personnel, let us act and the situation brought under control. It is not my doing, but it is the grace of God.
“My advice to my successor is that she should be patient and carry everybody along, put the personnel through the job, and she herself should be up and doing. Let her not sit down in the office, just waiting for her subordinates to do it for her, so she should be up and doing by visiting them, talking to them and organising lectures.
“Also, she should not hesitate to call their attention and point fingers at whoever is wrong. Also, she should place anybody that is misbehaving where he belongs to – that’s the job.”
SP Thomas, who joined the Police on May 1, 1987, and retired on Sunday, May 1, 2022, said; “I thank God for seeing this day alive- physically alright and I’m bouncing out physically to my family. I thank the FCT Minister for being there for me because if there is anything concerning the personnel, I would run to him, and he will always answer me”.
She posted to the FCTA Secretariat complex, which houses the office of the FCT Minister and top officials of the FCTA as well as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture
On her part, the new DPO posted to the FCTA, SP, Gimbya Audu, said she is taking over to continue from where her predecessor stopped,
According to her, “I have to work very hard with my personnel as a team, because without their cooperation, then the work will not go well.
“My general charge to my subordinates, is that let us work together, as I need them to always cooperate like one family, so as to deliver on our mandate here.“
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