The Nigeria Police Force will
recruit 31,000 personnel annually to address the challenges of inadequate
manpower. The Inspector-General, Ibrahim Idris says the fight against crime
cannot be successful without adequate manpower, 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
NAIJ.com, 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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