Nigerian Police Force Set To Recruit About 155,000 Personnel

Nigerian Police Force Set To Recruit About 155,000 Personnel

The Nigeria Police Force will recruit 155,000
personnel within five years to bridge its manpower shortage, according to the Inspector-General, Mr Ibrahim Idris. Idris told newsmen on Friday in Kano that 31,000 personnel would be recruited every year, for five years.

He said that the force did not recruit rank and
file personnel between 2011 and 2016, a
development that had created "a huge gap".

"We want to meet the UN standard of one
police man to 400 people ; the fight against
crime and criminality cannot be successful
without adequate manpower," he said.

On the quit notice issued to Igbo people by
some northern youths organizations, the
police boss declared that no individual had
the authority to eject any Nigerian from any
section of the country.

Idris, who was in Kano to condole the family
of Yusuf Maitama Sule, said that the demise
of the former Permanent Representative to
the UN was a great loss to the state and the
entire country.

According to an earlier report by sources, the
inspector general of police said the total
amount of money that the force annually need
is N1.13 trillion but only got N36.1billion in
2017 budget.

Idris made this known on Tuesday, July 11 ,
while delivering a speech on a bill for an act
to establish the Nigeria police reform trust
fund and for other related matters.

He said: "What is required to run the force
excluding major capital projects like arms and
ammunition, purchase of new vehicles, gun
boats, helicopters and other technological
needs is conservatively put at N14.132,532,142,242 ."

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