At least 400 crime suspects were arrested by the Lagos Police Command on Wednesday, July 1.
Among those arrested were 97 armed robbers, kidnappers, rapists, and murderers.
The arrests were made in one month, commissioner of police Hakeem Odumosu said yesterday while parading the suspects.
Twenty-eight persons were arrested for domestic violence and nine suspects whose alleged specialty was defrauding people with fake US dollars.
The suspected fraudsters, according to the police, were arrested with their so-called black boxes and operational vehicles, just as six stolen vehicles, 19 assorted firearms with a cache of ammunition, cutlasses, axes, and other dangerous weapons, including fetish objects were recovered from various suspects.
Mr. Odumosu gave the statistics at the command headquarters in Ikeja while parading some of the suspects arrested within the period.
He disclosed that a suspected armed robber was killed by operatives, 28 armed robbery attempts were foiled, six suicide cases recorded and four people stopped from killing themselves.
He said operatives intercepted N150 million worth illicit substance including 328 bags of dry leaves suspected to be Marijuana.
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