{"id":1523,"date":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:16:08","slug":"police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested four of its personnel seen in a viral video counting bundles of money in patrol vehicle.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe policemen in the embarrassing video have been identified and arrested. They appeared before the Commissioner of Police today,\u201d the Command\u2019s spokesperson, Bright Edafe, said in a terse statement on Tuesday.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe four personnel, two of them senior officers, have been queried, while the two inspectors have been detained and are awaiting an orderly room trial.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The development followed public outrage that trailed the viral video showing the officers sitting in a police patrol van counting wads of cash.<br \/><br \/>Edafe had earlier assured Nigerians that the Command would take appropriate disciplinary action against the officers.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested four of its personnel seen in a viral video counting bundles of money in patrol vehicle. \u201cThe policemen in the embarrassing video have been identified and arrested. They appeared before the Commissioner of Police today,\u201d the Command\u2019s spokesperson, Bright Edafe, said in a terse statement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta - Security Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Security Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T18:16:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-78.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Security Focus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Security Focus\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Security Focus\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1163dbff8eac2f7a15fc1b1ec49cb24e\"},\"headline\":\"Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-26T18:16:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":129,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Untitled-design-78.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.securityfocus.ng\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/26\\\/police-arrest-officers-over-money-counting-video-in-delta\\\/\",\"name\":\"Police Arrest Officers Over Money-Counting Video In Delta - 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