In Honour of Retired DIG Sylvester Abiodun Alabi: Effective Use of the Nigeria Police Control Rooms

Posted on January 7, 2025

BY DOUGLAS OGBANKWA

On Tuesday 31st of December 2024, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Retired) Sylvester Abiodun Alabi Fdc Mni Npm and three other AIGs were pulled out of the largest Police Force in Africa -the Nigeria Police Force.

DIG Alabi maintained a distinctive and distinguished career in the Nigeria Police Force where he was like Police Poster Boy, and was the egghead at the Force Investigation Department, Abuja, being a good example of how to be a Police Officer.

A Police Officer is like a priest or Imam. He stands as an intermediary between man and God and must do justice at all times. DIG Sylvester Alabi was a man of justice and fairness. In celebration of the excellence he represents, this article is put here to honour a Colossus and an enigmatic character. It was Professor Wole Soyinka that said; “It is honour to honour, honour and a greater honour to honour those who honour”.

The Nigeria Police Control Room Numbers in every State of Nigeria is an effective means to stem crime and make you safe and secured.

When you call the number of your State Command Control Room, you introduce yourself and explain your situation, which you must make look like a real emergency!

You must create by your call an urgency, that requires a swift and instant intervention of a Police Patrol Team and I assure you that the Police will respond immediately as there are punitive measures against not doing so, especially when something goes wrong.

Ensure that you give a vivid description of your address and be patient with the the Control Room Operators, ensuring that you follow up on them with subsequent calls until they get there, never lose your cool, be measured and collected until they get to you. Do not believe the Cliche that they never show up, they do as they have 100 Percent response if you follow up!

You can find out any information you require about the Police and the Security situation in a State. If you explained yourself well, you can be given the phone number of Key Police Operatives for operational or investigative reasons only.

You can also be linked to the Public Complaint Unit or the Police X-Squad for Police Misconduct, from the Control Room.

If you had any further challenges, Google what you require and I tell you, you will get results. The Control Room comes in helpful based on my experience when the need arises.

The following are the Nigeria Police Control Room Numbers in each State of the Federation.

S/No. State Command Police Control Phone Numbers:
1 ABIA 08035415408 08079210003 08079210004 08079210005
2 ADAMAWA 08089671313
3 AKWA IBOM 08039213071 08020913810
4 ANAMBRA 07039194332 08024922772 08075390511 08182951257
5 BAUCHI 08151849417 08127162434 08084763669 08073794920
6 BAYELSA 07034578208
7 BENUE 08066006475 08053039936 07075390677
8 BORNO 08068075581 08036071667 08123823322
9 CROSS RIVER 08133568456 07053355415
10 DELTA 08036684974
11 EBONYI 07064515001 08125273721 08084704673
12 EDO 08037646272 08077773721 08067551618
13 EKITI 08062335577 07089310359
14 ENUGU 08032003702 08075390883 08086671202
15 FCT ABUJA 07057337653 08061581938 08032003913
16 GOMBE 08150567771 08151855014
17 IMO 08034773600 08037037283
18 JIGAWA 08075391069 07089846285 08123821598
19 KADUNA 08123822284
20 KANO 08032419754 08123821575 064977004 064977005
21 KATSINA 08075391255 08075391250
22 KEBBI 08038797644 08075391307
23 KOGI 08075391335 07038329084
24 KWARA 07032069501 08125275046
25 LAGOS 07055462708 08035963919
26 NASARAWA 08123821571 07075391560
27 NIGER 08081777498 08127185198
28 OGUN 08032136765 08081770416
29 ONDO 07034313903 08075391808
30 OSUN 08075872433 08039537995 08123823981
31 OYO 08081768614 08150777888
32 PLATEAU 08126375938 08075391844 08038907662
33 RIVERS 08032003514 08073777717
34 SOKOTO 07068848035 08075391943
35 TARABA 08140089863 08073260267
36 YOBE 07039301585 08035067570
37 ZAMFARA 08106580123