Henceforth
newly recruited police constables are to be posted to their states of
origin, the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris disclosed in Minna
Niger State on Friday...
Alhaji
Ibrahim Idris said apart from posting the recruits to their states of
origin, majority of them would also be deployed to their local
government areas.
The
Inspector General of Police stated in a message to the passing out of
police recruits at the police college in the Niger State capital
The
IGP who was represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in
charge of Finance and administration Alhaji Shuaibu Lawal said the new
posting policy was to give vent to the new “community policing policy”.
To
show the seriousness of the force to the new policy, only four out of
the 464 policemen that passed out were retained in Minna with two each
posted to the ICT and police training schools respectively.
The
IGP also disclosed that 956 specialists drawn from the 10,000 approved
for the force had passed out as cadet ASP, and Inspectors while 767
other cadet ASPs and 666 cadet inspectors were being trained and would
pass out in December.
Alhaji
Idris reminded the federal government of his request for approval to
recruit additional 31,000 policemen annually for the next five years
to,” make the Nigeria police operate within the United Nations approved
ratio of 1:400
“Currently,
the Nigeria police force is operating at a ratio of 1:600 which is far
below the approved United Nations ratio,” Idris said.
He
reminded officers and men of the force that the public had high
expectation of them saying, “The protection of lives and property of the
citizenry, enforcement of all laws and regulations and prevention of
crimes lie squarely on police shoulders.
“The
police cannot afford to disappoint the populace by allowing crime and
criminality to thrive in the country. You must therefore put in your
utmost best to maintain law and order at all times.”
Niger
State Deputy governor, Alhaji Ahmad Mohammad Ketso who represented
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello challenged the police force to “look
inwards and think of how to confront the new forms of crimes and
criminality that pervades our society”.
Ketso
congratulated the new policemen and urged them to serve with “due
determination and dedication to service so that you can contribute your
quota to the peace efforts of the government.”
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