Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect on Monday abducted Ismaïla Sago, police commissioner in charge of public security at Dabanga, a town in the far north of Cameroon.
Security sources told, news agency, Xinhua that Sago fell into an ambush laid by the group around five pm in the evening.
He was said to be returning from Kousseri, a border town with the Chadian capital of N’Djamena, when the unfortunate incident occurred.
Sago was reportedly in the company of two unidentified civilians at the time he was abducted.
There is no official confirmation of the attack but Boko Haram has carried out series of attacks in the northern Cameroon, forcing the government to proscribe the wearing of hijab in public places, in view of its widespread use in suicide bombing.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration could introduce the same measure to check the suicide bombing campaign of the Islamist group.