PSC To Absorb 925 Police Trainees Who Didn’t Apply

The Police Service Commission (PSC) says 925 persons who did not apply for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force have been identified, rescreened and would be absorbed into the force by next week.

The commission noted that these set of individuals were identified in the cause of screening the 10,000 successful candidates.

“The Commission discovered that 925 persons never applied for recruitment and did not go through the stages and processes of recruitment. These included screening, aptitude test and medical examinations,” the PSC said.

In the overall interest of the nation, the PSC said it was important to absorb them into the force considering that “resources had been expended in the training of these Candidates.

“…And that these candidates had been exposed to weapon and weaponry decided to rescreen them,” it said.

It said the candidates have, however, been screened and absorbed excepts for those “found to be criminally minded (with mutilated certificates).

“The Commission is expected to approve their recruitment at its next Plenary Meeting holding next week after which they will receive letters of appointment and subsequently captured by IPPIS,” it said.

Meanwhile, the PSC said it is not withholding the payment of any police constable properly recruited in 2019.

In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, supposedly successful candidates have since been screened and the list sent to the Office of the Inspector General of Police.

“The Commission has also released appointment letters to the candidates and approved their capturing into the Integrated Pay- Roll and personnel Information System, (IPPIS) for the payment of their salaries and allowances.

“The Commission wishes to clarify that it had to bend backwards to accommodate the list of the candidates even after the Court of Appeal gave judgment in favour of the Commission nullifying the hijack of the recruitment exercise by the Nigeria Police Force.

“The Appeal Court judgment which is still subsisting had declared the exercise null and void and returned the Constitutional Powers of the Commission to recruit all persons into the Nigeria Police Force,” the PSC said.