Dolapo Badmos, a chief superintendent of
police, says it amounts to violation of privacy for police officers to search
people’s phones.
Badmos, who spoke when she
featured in a video song by Ruggedman, Nigerian rapper and music producer, said
police officers are only allowed to search phones when they have cogent reasons
to suspect a person.
Ruggedman, in the video, titled
‘Is Police Your Friend?’, spoke against police brutality and unlawful arrest
of people.
According to Badmos, police
asking to search phones “is like you just meet someone on the road and you say
‘look, can you pull your trouser because I want to search your boxer”.
She also said police officers are
not required to ask any driver for renewal of tint glass permit.
“You are only permitted when
there is reason to investigate. Not that you will just stop people on the road
and say ‘come, excuse me, you look like somebody. Can I see your phone?’ That
is wrong, and we have been clamouring and working on that,” Badmos said.
“What I want you to know is that
phone is private. It is like you just meet someone on the road and you say
‘look, can you pull your trouser because I want to search your boxer.’ That is
how I view someone searching someone’s phone because it is my property.
“You know people do a lot of
stuff on phone. Some have the statement of account on their phone and then you
want to open. It is wrong. Police officers have no right to do that except
there is a reasonable ground to do that. Maybe they have reason to suspect you.
Maybe a crime has just been committed and someone gave them information.
“The AIG has directed police in
Lagos and Ogun state to stop demanding renewal of tint permit. No policeman
should arrest anyone because of tint permit. So if any policeman is asking you
or demanding for renewal, it is wrong.”
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