BREAKING NEWS, Security
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THE Nigerian federal government is planning to recruit additional 10,000 police officers to reduce youth unemployment and boost security in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this on Monday, August 17, promising that the government would also establish a properly trained and equipped Federal Anti-Terrorism Multi-Agency Task Force that would effectively address the challenge of future insurgency.
Buhari was speaking at a one-day national security summit, held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, organised by the Nigeria Police Force and The Sun newspaper. He said that community input to policing and crime management in Nigeria had become more imperative in view of the current national security challenges in which kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, transnational crimes, terrorism and other organised crimes.
In the meantime, the president said efforts were being made to enhance the operational capacity of officers of the police force through training programmes in order to give the officers the right civil orientation in their roles as guardians of the constitution.
The president also disclosed that the expansion of the CCTV Monitoring System across several other major cities and towns in the country, while the police accountability mechanism would be strengthened.
“It is my high expectation that this National Security Summit will develop pathways for the attainment of this policy focus of the new administration” he said.
He commended the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force for appreciating the yearnings of members of the public by ordering the dismantling of police road blocks, which had been an object of discord between the police and the citizens.
He also lauded commended Solomon Arase, inspector-general of Police, for introducing the ‘Safer Highway Motorised Patrol’ Scheme and for deploying 555 Patrol Vehicles along all major highways to fill the void created by the enforcement of the order dismantling road blocks.
The president urged the police to adhere to all the United Nations and African Union Charters and other regional global instruments on human rights while also introducing alternative dispute resolution procedures to policing functions.
“These initiatives, if properly implemented, will undoubtedly address those factors that threaten public confidence in the Police and hence, create good grounds for the practice of community-led policing to flourish. I am tasking the police not only to “say” but to “do” as we are promising to Nigerians,” he said.
Earlier, Arase called for community driven policing as an alternative to effectively curbing insecurity within Nigeria as well tackle inadequate man power profile in the Nigeria Police Force.
— Aug 18, 2015 @ 12:10 GMT
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