The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Biu has clarified that the personnel of the corps are not allowed to enter the vehicles of offenders, no matter the offence.
Bisi Kazeem, FRSC spokesperson in a statement on Thursday, said Biu made the clarification while dismissing a “wrongly couched” memo currently making the rounds.
Kazeem said the memo in question relates to a directive issued to commanding officers, which called for an end to the practice of placing patrol operatives in the vehicles of offenders during impoundment.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the corps marshal’s directive was a correction of an earlier one saying impoundment of vehicles have been banned, captured under paragraph III of the aforementioned memo.
“However, the corps marshal only banned placing of staff in offenders’ vehicles to escort for impoundment by patrol teams under any guise of traffic infraction committed with immediate effect.”
