PSC Calls for More Recruitment into the Police Force

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has called for continuous recruitment of more personnel into the Nigeria Police Force, to increase police presence in communities, across the country.

The commission’s Chairman, Solomon Arase, said this would empower the police to recover the ungoverned spaces from the non-state actors.

Arase made the call, while receiving a delegation from the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria in Lagos.

According to him, policing should be more visible at the local level, where a lot of ungoverned space had been taken over non-state actors.

He said the commission and the police force are currently undergoing challenging period of their existence.

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The Police Service Commission Chairman said crimes worldwide are becoming so scientific, and requires scientific approaches from the police to fight it.

Recall that the acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, had expressed the need to recruit over 190,000 police constables to enable the NPF function better.

Speaking at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, at an event themed, ‘Role of the NPF, Industrialisation and Climate Change’, Egbetokun said the NPF requireD no fewer than 190,000 new recruits, 1,000 Armoured Personnel Carriers and 250,000 assault rifles, with corresponding ammunition.

He further noted that resources needed to enhance capacity in promoting a secure environment for industrialisation include 2,000,000 tear gas canisters and smoke grenades, 200,000 riot guns and smoke pistols, 1,000 tracking devices and 774 operational drones, adding that limited supply of the aforementioned has continued to limit effectiveness in police activities.