Police to recruit 30,000 personnel annually – DIG Dikko

The Nigeria Police Force has made plans
to recruit 30,000 personnel annually to
enhance community policing in the
country.

The deputy inspector general of police
(DIG) in charge of north-west zone, Mr
Maigari Dikko, made this known in an
address to officers at the state police
command headquarters in Sokoto on
Wednesday. April 19.
According to This Day, the Dikko noted
that the bulk of the recruitment would
focus on constables and cadet inspectors
for adequate community policing in the
country.
The annually recruitment is meant to address
the challenges of inadequate manpower in the
police force.
He said the annual recruitment is aimed
at addressing the challenges of
inadequate manpower in the police
force.
Diko disclosed that the Inspector
General of Police (IG) had already
written to President Muhammadu
Buhari for approval of the recruitment
exercise.
“The Inspector General had already
written to the President and as soon as
he gives the approval, we intend to
recruit 30,000 personnel every year for a
period of three years.
“We are really facing manpower
challenge in the force. We have only
375,000 personnel in the country and
this is inadequate even with the 10,000
cadets currently undergoing training.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos state police
command has raided a militant camp
located in creeks at Majidun in the
Ikorodu area of Lagos.

The Tribune reports that the raid which
began on Wednesday morning, April 19,
led to the destruction of a militant
enclave and arrest of 13 suspected
militants.
It was learnt that the state
commissioner of police, Fatai Owoseni,
and other top hierarchy of the
command were on hand to supervise the
operation which is still ongoing at the
time of filing this report.
In a related report, one of the ring
leaders behind the killing of an army
officer and some policemen in Ikorodu
has has been shot dead by policemen.
The suspect, Endurance Ominisan aka
Mighty, a native of Arogbo in Ondo
state, was arrested during an operation
by the operatives of the Inspector
General of Police’ (IGP’s) Intelligence
Response Team (IRT) on Sunday, April
on April 16.
The militant however died on Tuesday
morning, April 18, at a hospital as a
result of the injuries he sustained
during a gun fight with the police, The
Nation reports.
It was learnt that the operatives of
the IGP’s IRT trailed the kingpin to his
lover’s home at 20, Joel Adebolu street,
Ibeshe in Ikorodu.
Their offensive on the gang was sequel
to a directive from IGP Ibrahim Idris to
all police units and commands in Lagos
and Ogun to get the culprits dead or
alive.

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