Nigeria Police To Recruit 155,000 Additional Personnel

[caption id="attachment_19185" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police visits President Muhammadu Buhari at the Villa.[/caption]

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris has formerly written President Muhammadu Buhari for the approval to recruit at least 155,000 additional personnel into the force in the next five years.

This was according to the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Training and Development and Supervising in charge of South-south, Mr. Emmanuel Inyang, who made the disclosure on Thursday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

If approved, it would enable the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) meet the United Nations standard and ease the pressure on its workforce, Inyang stated.

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‘’We have written to the president to give us the power to recruit 31,000 police officers every year for the next five years. This is how we can achieve that standard,” said Inyang at the headquarters of the Bayelsa States Police Command.

“But at least, even if we cannot make the 31,000 personnel, at least, 10,000 or 15,000, we hope to get and with that, very soon we can meet the UN standards.’’

While charging Police officers to avoid corruption, Inyang said ‘’The basic tenet of discipline must be upheld at all times and we have also asked the CPs and AIGs under my command to pay attention to visibility policing and operation safer highways to reduce crimes maximally.”

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