Lagos state assigns new police commissioner 

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has appointed Imohimi Edgar as the new Commissioner of Police in-charge-of the Lagos state police command, following Edgar’s recent promotion to by the Police Service Commission. ‎ 

Edgar is the immediate past Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), in-charge-of operations, in Lagos state. 
He was said to have been instrumental in ending the activities of the dreaded Badoo cult and militants carrying out kidnappings within Ikorodu and its adjoining communities. 
Edgar was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force, as a cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, on February 2, 1986, serving in various commands and formations of the NPF within the country in several capacities, spending most of his days at the Lagos state police command. 
He is a 1984 graduate of Art at the University of Jos, he obtained a master degree in Public and International Affairs at the University of Lagos in 2004. 
He is highly trained on community and intelligence gathering policing, enabling him in organising the first Community Policing Summits in Ikeja GRA, Lagos state. 
He hosted security stakeholders in Ikeja, at Savoy Suite, GRA and lectured participants on how to assist the police on community policing. 
Edgar attended several courses organised by the Department For International Development, United Kingdom, in Lagos, Awka, Anambra states and Staff College Jos, Plateau state. 
Following his promotion to the rank of a DCP and his appointment as DC operations Lagos state, Edgar through his community policing experience, mobilised a joint security operation, involving members of the Oodua Progress Congress, Ikorodu Local Vigilante, Oyaabo, the Departments of State Security, Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, ‎traditionalists and some local chiefs in Ikorodu, in tackling the menace of the Badoo cult group. 
His effort aided the discovery of a suspected notorious shrine which is used for ritual purposes . 
He was also said to have played a huge role in the successful rescue of the six kidnapped students, of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, Epe, who were abducted on May 25 by gunmen who invaded the school. 
His appointment came at a time Lagos state is grappling with rampant cases of kidnappings and jungle justice. 
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