Date fixed for fresh Nigeria Police recruitment

A date has been fixed for fresh Nigeria Police recruitment.

Onyxnews Nigeria reports that the Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, Kenneth Ebrimson, has stated that the recruitment of special constables in the southwest state would begin this week.

The Ogun Police Commissioner revealed the decision on Wednesday to go on new Police recruitment after the inauguration of the new state chairman of the Police Community Relations Committee, Samson Popoola.

The Commissioner of Police said the recruitment which is directed at fighting crimes at the grassroots, is part of efforts to encourage community policing in the state.

He said the recruitment would begin shortly after arrangements have been completed at the Area Command, Local Government Areas and the divisional levels, this week, nothing that the constables would be trained on police operation and would be given police uniform, although without a badge.

The Ogun Commissioner of Police said the constables would assist the command to prevent criminal activities, gives the command intelligence report and resolve the crisis among members of the public.

He said: “All other strata of the community policing, the Area Command, the Local Government Area and the divisional level will be concluded without any doubt this week.

“Thereafter we will now start with a pilot scheme of the recruitment of the constabulary who will now form the bulk of the community policing practitioners at the community level to assist the police in prevention, information and intelligence gathering and conflict resolution.

“So, in no distance time when all these level of advisory committee of the community policing has finalised, we will now see the next level will now be the consolidation of the recruitment of the constabulary and sending them to a modicum training of the police operation which will translate to bringing them in as part of our partners and remember also part of the concept.

“The idea is to give them a sense of belonging is that when recruited they will be given the police uniform but the only difference will be the signal, the badge so that one can give them that sense of belonging and they will now see the police as our police, not their police,” the Ogun CP said.