Skip to main content

Nigeria requires additional 155,000 police personnel – I-G

The Inspector-General of Police
Ibrahim Idris, has said that the Nigeria Police Force requires additional 155,000 personnel to adequately provide security for the country.

Mr. Idris, who said that this at a two-day National Security Summit in Abuja on Thursday, said to achieve this, the force needs to recruit 31,000 cadets annually for five years.

The theme of the summit is:

Forging Partnership for Effective Strategies to Curb the Menace of Kidnapping, Recurring Farmers-Herders Clashes and Criminality in Nigeria.

“To attain the UN ratio requirement of one police officer to 400 citizens of a country, the Nigeria Police Force needs to recruit 155,000 to police Nigerian population of approximately 182 million,”he said.
Mr. Idris said the police had not conducted recruitment into its rank and file cadre since 2011 until 2016 when the recruitment of 10,000 applicants was approved by the Federal Government.
He said this development had left a huge gap in the manpower need of the force due to retirements, deaths and resignations.

The police boss said that the proposal had been forwarded to the Federal Government for consideration.

He added that inadequate funding, shortfall in power and training and retraining of personnel had been some of the challenges confronting the force.

“Over the years, the Nigeria Police Force saddled with the responsibility of policing the country, has been grappling with fundamental challenges which tend to impede its performance,” he said.

The inspector-general said the issue of funding of police had been critical to all past police panels, adding that it had yet to be critically addressed.

He said the Nigeria Police Force Reform Trust Fund bill before the National Assembly since 2008 had yet to be passed.

Mr. Idris called on members of the National Assembly to expeditiously pass the bill to address the challenge of funding for the police.
“We solicit the support and understanding of the National Assembly to give an accelerated hearing to this bill to adequately position the police for better funding and performance,” he said.

He said that the bill would further provide a legal framework that would outline the counterpart funding arrangement between the three tiers of government.

Mr. Idris noted that when passed, the police would be funded through a first line charge on the federation account quarterly.

He said that in spite of paucity of fund, the force in collaboration with other security agencies had been able to stabilse the polity.
(NAN)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SEE Photos From The Memorial Service Of Former Newcastle Midfielder, Cheick Tiote

Former Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote’s Beijing Enterprises team-mates paid their respects on Tuesday to the Ivory Coast star,  who died in hospital last week after collapsing during a training session . The 30-year-old’s family flew to China after Tiote’s tragic death and attended the ceremony. They will accompany his body back to the Ivory Coast on Wednesday, where a private funeral service will be held for family, including 50 brothers and sisters, and friends. Tiote’s loved ones and friends are still waiting for official confirmation of the cause of the former Anderlecht, FC Twente and Newcastle midfielder’s death. Fans also paid their respects outside the memorial venue, with an impressive R.I.P banner showing Tiote in a range of kits from his colourful career.
Post a Comment
Read more

Accident In Lagos,5 Students In Coma,Others Injured(SEE Photos)

As shared by Adeyeye…… ‘This happened yesterday at the LASU-IYANA IBA Road and as at yesterday,  5 students were in coma and those who got injured at the head might develop mental disorder as reported. The NANS  Chairman (who was also in the bus) amidst tears told me this morning that a student activist has lost his leg. The worst thing about the whole fateful event is that the doctors in the various hospitals where they were mobilised to so as to fast track the treatment are not “doing anything” likewise the Lagos State Government they have links with. These students need help at the moment.I am on my way to LASUTH . Please Share!. More updates would come later on financial assistance as they (the parents of the victims and some student leaders) have raised and spent more than 100,000 naira since yesternight. Save lives’
Post a Comment
Read more

Hausa Man Allegedly Stabs Igbo Man In Enugu With Dagger Over N50(Photos)

I don’t know how true is this but according to a Facebook user Chukwudi Leo who shared the story,an Igbo man and his Hausa were yesterday involved in a fight over N50.The Hausa man allegedly ‘cut’ him with a dagger.Below is what he wrote.. ‘Enugu on fire happening live at new heaven a fight between a hause and Igbo man . Just that this Igbo man is be own N50 by an hause Fulani man just went to the shop of the hause man for his balance and the hause refuse saying that he don’t have money to give him so the decided to take something else just moment the ibo man pick up ciger the hause started fighting him even cut the Igbo with his dagger and run away just now the man his been rushed to hospital cus the knife cut some part of his nose off’. I appeal to every Nigerian to embrace peace.We can not continue this way.Little by little,we can end up fighting a tribal war which we will regret in future.Let us embrace love!
Post a Comment
Read more