The Acting Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has appointed Commissioner of Police Tunji Disu as the Principal Staff Officer to the IGP.
Prior to his appointment, CP Disu headed the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT).
Olatunji Disu Rilwan (born April 13, 1966) hails from Lagos Island LGA in Lagos State. He had his Post-Primary education at Mayflower Junior School, Ikenne, Ogun State; attended Pobuna Secondary Grammar School, Epe; and Saint Gregory’s College, Lagos.
He also obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English (Education) at the Lagos State University in 1989; a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Relations and Strategic Studies, also at the Lagos State University; a certificate in Personal Protection in the United Kingdom; and holds a Master in Public Administration at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State (2010) and another in Criminology, Security, and Legal Psychology from the Lagos State University (2022).
He enlisted in the Nigerian Police Force on May 18, 1992, as a cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and was trained at the Nigeria Police Academy, Kaduna.
Disu was Aide-De-Camp (ADC) to the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and was thereafter redeployed to the Ogun State Police Command to serve as the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Ago-Iwoye, where he performed excellently well in areas of fighting all sorts of criminal activities, including cultism.
He subsequently led the Nigeria Police contingent on the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to quell the crisis in war-torn Darfur in 2005, where he equally discharged his duties with commendable passion and professionalism that brought honor and glory to Nigeria.
The feats in Darfur earned Disu instant recognition, and he was named Officer-in-Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ondo State Police Command, and later Officer-in-Charge of the SARS in Oyo and Rivers States Police Headquarters, respectively.
Soon afterwards, he was elevated to a new rank as an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and was Deputy Head at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Rivers State Police Command before his transfer to the Lagos State Command and subsequent deployment as the Commander in Charge of Rapid Response Squad (a position the present IGP, Egbetokun, held from 2005–2007).
ACP Disu took over as RRS Commander on June 13, 2015, until his elevation to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) on April 10, 2019. He was re-appointed the next day, a position he held until 2020, when he was redeployed to Force Headquarters, Abuja, at the Department of Operations.
He (Disu) replaced now-suspended DCP Abba Kyari in August 2021 as Commander, Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), following the latter’s alleged links with convicted fraudster Raman Abbass, aka Hushpuppi.
He was subsequently elevated to Commissioner of Police in April 2023.
He has also attended different professional courses within and outside Nigeria, including Small Arms Smuggling Training in Botswana, Internet Fraud Training at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Strategic Leadership Command Course at the Police Staff College, Jos, and Forensic Investigations and Criminal Intelligence Course at the University of Lagos, amongst others.
He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, the Chattered Institute of Personnel Management, etc.
A Judoka with lots of medals to his name,
CP Disu is the Chairman of the Police Judo Association and was the Chairman of the Lagos State Judo Association.
