At least 50,000 persons will be recruited into the Nigeria Police Force over the next five years as part of the efforts to beef up personnel in the Force, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Criminal Intelligence and Investigation, and the Supervising DIG, Northeast, Hyacinth Medugu Dagala, has said.
Dagala dropped the hint in Gombe yesterday, when he said 10,000 would be recruited into the Force per year over the next five years. He said the Inspector General of Police in writing asked President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to recruit more after a critical examination of the scenario as it regards personnel in the Force.
“It is not actually a good number but I am happy to tell you that the IG and his management team after looking at the scenario wrote and secured President Buhari’s approval to recruit this number or more for the next five years to come,” said the DIG.
He said police chiefs have been making frantic efforts to see that recruitment is continuous. “It is supposed to be continuous because every year, every month, every time, there are retirements and deaths in the Police Force. “To train 10,000 policemen, a minimum of about N8billion is needed because the day you bring in a policeman for training, he is already like an employee, you take care of his allowances, his salary, his feeding, his logistics and all that.
“Some government feel that they can’t afford it but I thank God that when the President came in, he immediately released funds because he knows the importance of policemen,” said DIG Hyacinth Earlier in his remark, the Commissioner of Police, Gombe State, Austin Iwar said his Command had a manpower of 5,055 when he took over on September 9, 2015 now has 4,565 personnel.
He blamed the situation on constant transfers and mobilization out of the Command, which has affected 100 Senior Police Officers and 300 Inspectors and Rank and file without commensurate replacements. He therefore appealed to the authorities of the force to deploy more personnel to the state to further improve the police services and the personnel per population ratio
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