A court ruling bars lawyers who are not formally appointed as legal officers within Nigeria’s police force from participating in functions beyond prosecution. The decision restricts such police lawyers to handling only prosecutorial work. The court also orders the police force, the Police Service Commission (PSC), and the Inspector-General of the Federation to ensure legal-practitioner police officers are deployed to every police division across the country. According to the judgment, those deployed legal practitioners are meant to support the enforcement of human rights in policing at the divisional level. The ruling is presented in the reports as an update clarifying the scope of the restriction: the restriction applies to lawyers within the police force who lack legal-officer appointment status, while legally appointed legal officers are not similarly constrained. The court’s orders therefore combine limits on participation by unappointed lawyers with a directive to increase availability of qualified legal practitioners throughout police divisions to strengthen human-rights compliance. The reports do not indicate the broader background of the case beyond the court’s directives.