Police Service Commission Seeks Immediate Overhaul of Police Constabulary

The Police Service Commission has demanded an immediate overhaul of the police special constabulary set up to assist the police force in community policing.

It calls for the disbandment of the quasi-police outfits in states, where its officers are not paid salaries or taken care of.

The Commission’s Chairman, Solomon Arase in a statement, said they had been flooded with petitions of professional misconduct, including extortion on roads and roads, as well as high handedness in dealing with people.

Arase called for a new set of uniforms for the officers of the police special constabulary to differentiate them from the regular police officers.

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The commission calls for an entirely different set of uniforms for officers of the outfit that should be easily differentiated from those of regular police officers.

“This will help to track appropriately the conduct of men of the outfit and that of regular police officers and free the Nigeria Police Force from blames associated with the misconduct of men of the outfit,” he said.

The Police Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said last week that the Police Special Constabularies involved were not regular police personnel but constabularies.

Arase called for the disbanding of the outfit in states where members aren’t paid and supported.