Officers banned from demanding Customs papers, tinted permit – Police to motorists

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has once again declared that police personnel across the federation are banned from demanding Customs documents and allocation of number papers from drivers.

The police also reiterated that officers are banned from demanding tinted glass permit from motorists as tinted glass permit remains suspended across the country.

In a tweet on Sunday, the acting Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said there are only three documents the police are expected to demand from any motorist, and these are vehicle licence, driver’s licence and insurance certificate.

“Please take note that the police don’t demand for allocation of number paper, it’s not necessary, since a vehicle has been registered. All you need to have wit u is the three I mentioned, vehicle licence, certificate of insurance and driver’s licence. Simple.

“No police man should demand your Customs papers. No. Except they are on joint operation, but not just on mere routine checks. And for now, we have suspended issuance of tinted glass permit, so we don’t expect our men to disturb Nigerians on this.

“We (police) are to stop any vehicle with tints, search the vehicles, and its occupants, but not to delay him for not having tinted glass permits. Report them (police) if you are so delayed, so that we ask them questions,” the police spokesman declared.

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Some tweeps had taken on CSP Adejobi on his Twitter handle while complaining about ugly experience in the hands of some police officers over tinted glasses.

DoubleBarrel PRINCE writing with the handle, @obaloladaprince, reported: “Sir, I was driving Venza 2012 (model) with the back door tinted (Factory Tint) on my way to Ibadan this month. A police officer stopped me and asked for all the documents, including my driving license which I provided. He then asked for my tint permit which I politely told him it’s (glass) factory tinted.

“He delayed me for hours with no reason, insisting I turned my car back to where I was coming from and I refused. Sir, am I to get a tint permit for factory fitted glass? The front doors are plain glass the back doors are tint (which you can still see through).”

Another tweep, sammie_chuks @chuksnewman02, wrote: “On the day I was going for a burial function I was arrested twice for moving with factory fitted tinted glass and on that day I feared for my life as they (police) were not dressed like force men, they had dreadlocks with intimidating words like, ‘I be like normal police for you eye?’

“I was taken to different lonely locations, and they demanded 10M at first. They took me to POS stand and they settled for 150k after a longtime delay and accusations without bases, all to pin point a crime to coerce me to pay. Well, it’s all in the past but I paid to save my life.”