The Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro, has called on members of the public illegally parading themselves as policemen or women to desist from doing so forthwith or face the wrath of the law.

Sir Okiro made this call last week while briefing newsmen shortly after parading forty-year-old, Husseini Aliyu (aka Kenny Ariyo), who was arrested at the forth-floor of the Force Headquarters in Abuja claiming to be a policeman.

The arrest of the fake policeman was facilitated by the order given by the IGP for screening of all civilian and uniform visitors to the Louis Edet House.

According to the IGP, two fake police warrant cards were found after search a was conducted on the suspect. He said that on interrogation, the fake policeman confessed that he was not a police officer but a trader.

In a related development, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sir Mike Okiro has said that no fresh request for recall would be entertained until those earlier recalled were adequately remunerated,.

The police boss, who made this known while answering questions fromHeadquartersa pressmen on the delay in payment of the remuneration of the called policemen, said however, that those not recalled would be paid their disengagement benefit.

"You will recall that in 2006, during the past police administration led by Mr. Sunday Ehindero, about 10,000 police officers were rationalized. After some of them petitioned the National Assembly, which directed a review of the exercise and about three thousand, six hundred and nine of them were recalled and posted back to their former commands" he said.

Sir Okiro explained that request for the release funds has been sent to the appropriate authorities for the payment of salaries and allowances of the affected officers.