The police headquarters in Edo State was thrown into a state of panic recently when a suspect made an attempt to escape from detention.
Men of the Nigeria Police Force
The Operatives of the State Criminal Investigative Department (SCID) at the Edo State Police headquarters were thrown into panic on Monday morning when a suspect who was arrested in Delta State made a bold attempt to escape, The Nation reports.
The suspect was said to have slipped out the handcuffs on him and ran away wearing only boxers and singlet.
He was arrested with two others after being pursued for over one week after they duped someone the sum of N20m.
They were being taken to the command headquarters for proper documentation of their case and for onward conveyance to Lagos state when one of them made away.
The fleeing suspect ran into a nearby bush and abandoned buildings near the Benin Owina River Basin Development Authority office just opposite the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS).
A shot fired by a DSS operative did not deter the suspect.
Over 20 policemen attached to the police headquarters gave the suspect a hot chased and caught up with him when he could not jump a fence in one of the houses he ran into.
The suspect was later rearrested and given the beating of his life.
He was tied up and locked in the booth of a car.
A female SCID officer who did not disclosed her name and her other male colleagues were heard thanking God for saving their jobs and possibly made to face orderly room trial.