Crime
Police must recruit 155,000 officers to fill 7 years’ recruitment gap
IGP Ibrahim Idris has said that the Nigeria Police Force requires additional 155,000 recruits to adequately provide for the nation’s security need.
“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 at a two-day National Security Summit in Abuja on Thursday.
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.
According to him, the police has 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.
A proposal for that has 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.
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“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 Nigeria Police Force Reform Trust Fund bill has been before the National Assembly since 2008.
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 in spite of paucity of fund, the force in collaboration with other security agencies had been able to stabilise the polity.
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