Nigeria, June 12 -- The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Ikioye Orutugu, has ordered the detention of three police inspectors for allegedly extorting a man.

The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday night.

Mr Ikenga, a superintendent of police, did not disclose the identities of the inspectors and the victim.

Mr Ikenga said the inspectors had accosted the man during a security patrol, forcibly searched his phone and extorted him.

The spokesperson said Mr Orutugu frowned at the inspectors' misconduct while interrogating them.

He said the commissioner further ordered immediate commencement of internal disciplinary proceedings of the Nigeria Police Force against the ins...