17 Sep Police to recruit 20,000 personnel by 2022
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Baba says the Nigerian Police Force will soon embark on the recruitment of more personnel into the force, in order to address the shortage of manpower in the Force.
He spoke in Minna, the Niger state capital, yesterday, when he addressed officers and men of the state command.
He said now that the dispute between the Force and the Police Service Commission is over, recruitment into the force will soon commence, and that between now and 2022, not less than 20,000 men will be engaged into the force, to boost its manpower.
He said that training and retraining of officers and men of the force will now be given top priority, even as he said the police colleges will now be made more functional, submitting that trainees in the colleges “will now eat and sleep there”.
Baba also disclosed that he is a member of a national committee looking into the accommodation of policemen, pointing out that the committee has decided that not less than 1,500 houses would be provided for the police “ between now and next year.”
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