By DAYO JOHNSON

AKURE — NO fewer than 203 suspected criminals were arrested within the last one year by the Ondo State Police Command.

Briefing newsmen in Akure on the activities of the state police command last year, the state Police Commissioner, Patrick Dukumor, said all the suspects were being prosecuted in courts.

Dukumor explained that 105 of them are armed robbery suspects.

He said 26 of them are suspected kidnappers while five are 419 suspects and pipeline vandals.

According to him, eight cases of kidnapping were unravelled by the state police command during the period under review.

Others include 45 rape suspects, two cases of defilment, eight human traffickers and 12 suspects who stole some children.

He said 45 stolen vehicles and motorcycles were recovered and handed over to their owners.

Dukumor pointed out that 61 arms and 570 ammunition were recovered from the suspects.

Arms recovered include AK-47, AK-49, pump action riffles, assault rifles, Magnum gun, locally made pistols, Tokarev pistol and locally made double barrel guns.

Dukumor described as very painful the killing of an ASP by some robbers who robbed a bank in Ekiti State and were passing through the state recently.

He vowed that “nobody kills a policeman and gets away with it. We are still on their trail and very soon we will get them.”

The murdered policeman had only three years to retire from the force before he was shot dead by the robbers.