Know The Documents Police Should Ask For At Checkpoints!

Hello people,

Please find below the list of documents that cops at checkpoints have the right to ask for:

1. Driving License

2. Insurance Certificate

3. Certificate of Road Worthiness (Commercial vehicles only).

They do not have the right to ask for:

1. Vehicle purchase documents

2. Proof ownership (except if the vehicle is unregistered)

3. Receipt of plate number

4. ECMR

This is boldly written on their website, please check by yourself to confirm.

Advice: It will be wise to reduce the volume of your computer. There is a horrible song attached to the website!!!

Nigeria Police Site: www.nigeriapolice.org/

I think people should begin to follow the law regarding things in Nigeria.

However, In actual fact, before you begin to argue with the police concerning documents (especially when you are alone on the motorway), make sure you have called someone to inform them of your whereabout, before you get missing and they don't  find you or your body again. You may even be framed and charged so be warned and be careful!

Its good u've mentioned that dey don't have d right 2 ask 4 vehicle purchase docs because I've been kept 4 about 4 hrs 4 d import vehicle papers of my car. den after we had "settled" one of them adviced me 2 tear it up n go and swear an adfidavit saying that it is missing den he now told me that actually d police does not have d right 2 ask 4 it!!!

Hunger is in nigeria,If police arrest you and you don't coperate, they will take you to station and make you bail yourself.inshort use sweet mounth for policemen and women if you have some little cash give it to them as bribe or as token. The reality is that policemn know how to pin you and even frame a story that will land you in Jail.I follow 50k i no follow 10K,so race is better than any form of statement or visit to the station.
police dey look for bribe and they will tell you that they want to investigate your ECMR and or Police extract or vehicle registration process for due process.Then you will park your vehicle with them and work with them at the end of the day you will find out that you are dealing with some individuals that act like cult group.you cannot win police ooooo. hmmm,

if you think you are smart  somebody there is smart (unless you're a lawyer). use sweet mouth if you have money give them otherwise use sweet mouth.Even most police people are not educated,they will ask you to explain what is written in the document you give them,maybe because it doesnt look like the one they are used to.again if the smartly cover up they may accuse you of using expired documents because they saw in a document that read thus ( will expire next year from date of validation 2006). i have seen where a bus driver was taken to police because of ignorance.Do not risk your life be smarter with police people, abeg.

@Iabiyemmy
agreed with you. Real slap is what you get and disgrace ha ha haa. they will drag you to station and tell oga say you are resisting arrest and in possession suspected stolen propert with false identification, na you go dey happy say them collect money from you and leave you make you go, even if yaradua is your uncle, police don slap you and disgrace you for resisting arrest is now in your life history and profile,though youmay latter win, but it doesnt make sense to me. Nobody will pay you compensation for nija here.

follow police with wisdom

@Jakumo Paper money is the issue.That alone validates you as a friend to the police.

y are people crucifying the police so badly,am sure none of this has happened to the peeps ere except u are a danfo driver and the reason it will happen to u is because u refused to bribe them.and u know you're erring with the law.

how do u expect a policeman to react when you're absolutely rude and think of them as dirt.yes some policemen can be overly disruptive but u provoked him/her in the first place.

good thinking and don't forget to show it to them when they ask for papers.

I agree with u all.

But imagine, i was stopped by police in abuja one day, after presenting them with all my papers, including ,my tint permit, do u know what bthey asked me for?

RAZOR BLADE! 

I then asked what for?

They said incase of accident i wouyld use it to cut off my seat belt. 

I still had to settle. 

You r just talking as if you don't know these people [Nigerian Police].
Am so sure you don't drive while travelling arround this country because if you do, well you have known what's up especially take for instance from Lagos to Benin road. Let me the rest of the story for you to tell.

brosieee all these 1 na long story, the police no need dese stuff for road wetin them want na N20 bribe finish, d 1 wey get sense smal go collect N50, d one wey b like say ddem go scoool go colect N100, those 1 wey dey try small smal go collect N200

if them say them wan arrest u na road una go dey negotiate

NA FEW DEY DO THERE WORK

The Nigeria Police are really a big disgrace. Just yesterday i was stopped twice within 50 meters by 2 separate teams in surulere.
My papers were all complete, but this very hungry policeman had to look for something.
He opened my doors and started to search for the date of manufacture, it was really very funny, he couldn't find it so he asked me , i told him i had absolutely no idea ( i drive a 2001 ford explorer)
Next he accused of using tinted windows, i explained to him that the car was an American spec suv and comes standard with tints and that knowing the kind of police we have here, i actually went all out to change the tint to normal windows,he insisted that my boot windows was still tinted, at this moment i began to laugh, he got offended and invited his 'oga', a sergent, i guess when that one came and took a good look at me and heard the whole story, he just asked me to go, expecting me to say thank you i just drove away.
Its really sad, the police is now immigration, road safety, lasma and what have you, we get to go to ghana and other african countries and they are more or less better organised.
I think a special thread should start on police corruption and we should really publicize the thread, post all your shameful encounters with the Nigerian police and quote the police id and name of the police person in question, get the newspapers and entire nigerians invoved. Invite the police public relations officer to be a part (if this will help), send mail to their email address. For your own safety , make sure your address and phone number is not listed on nairaland o!!!.

I have personally met with a number of very decent police officers, educated, polished, its just some bad eggs that spoil the whole pack

I heard over the radio yesterday that anyone caught give bribe of any kind to a police officer will face a penalty of spending 7 years in jail.
What do we have to say in this case?

I am aware of that wonderful website

I am also aware that, boldly written behind the counter of every police station in Nigeria is this harmless phrase:

BAIL IS FREE

Like my ancestors would say, never argue with a man with a gun. many have been christiened armed-robbers on the spot in the process, post-humously of course, with their blood to serve as the river jordan.


The fact remains that if you want to prove your right with a naija police along the highway, you could pend hours doing that, while he's doing his f*****g job and wasting your time simultaneously.

Thats webiste is not coming up, i hope the site is not living up to the name of the owners?

Guys, guys, methinks u have to check out ruemu's post. I 've had the print out of the facts on the police website for over a year now and since then like Tom Tom, its been sweet relief. What i've found out is that the more papers you carry around, the more faults the policemen are going to find with it so I go around with only four documents, my driver's licence, vehicle licence, insurance and the print out from the police website. Try it and see. Once they sight the "fourth" document, they know that you know. If they still insist on some other documents, insist that you should call the police PRO to confirm. His name is Bode Ojajuni and his phone number is right there on the print out from the website. Things has got to start changing in this country and we're part of the people that should be in the vanguard. Besides, why should anybody be taking away your hard earned money from you illegally. But a word of caution, don't shout or abuse the police, tackle them politely with the facts at hand and please, just give them what they want if its on a lonely road at night and u're the only one in the car.