Police Begin Recruitment of 10,000 Personnel

Police Begin Recruitment of 10,000 Personnel

The Nigerian Police Force has begun the process  to  recruit  10,000 policemen as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari at the National Security Summit in Abuja last year.

Meanwhile, the Police Service Commission (PSC) recently unveiled a portal for the recruitment exercise in Abuja.

 The Chairman of the commission, Mike Okiro, announced that the portal would be opened to the public on April 1, 2016, and herald the commencement of the recruitment exercise.

Okiro said the unveiling of the portal was in actualisation of the presidential directive on the recruitment of the 10,000 policemen, adding that the PSC considers the exercise remarkable since there has not been recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force for more than five years now due to financial constraints.

He noted that thousands of policemen who died in the course of service, dismissed or retired, had not been replaced since the last five years leaving the Force under manned and over stretched.

The PSC chairman said the recruitment would strengthen and re-energise the Force to squarely and efficiently face the myriad of security challenges posed by insurgency, kidnapping, cattle rustling and other criminalities that impede the socio-economic and political development of the country.

He explained that the commission could not commence the exercise last year because the funding was not captured in the 2015 budget, adding that with the commencement of the process on April 1, interested Nigerians should access the portal through the commission’s website www.psc.gov.ng or that of the Nigeria Police Force, www.npf.gov.ng.

The PSC chairman announced that there would be no charges for the processing of the forms which will be done online.

According to him, “We are not charging money. It is free, absolutely free.” He also noted that the portal has been structured in a way that there will be no short cut. Everybody must go through due process.”

Okiro said the commission would be recruiting candidates into the three entry points of the Nigeria Police Force which are Constable, Cadet Inspector and Cadet ASP. There will also be recruitment into the Specialist cadre.

He said Police Constables applicants are expected to possess five credit level passes including Mathematics and English Language at Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in not more than two sittings, and for Cadet Inspectors, in addition to having the requirements of Police Constables, candidates would be expected to have either National Diploma (ND), Advanced Level (A level), National Certificate of Education (NCE) or their equivalents while candidates for Cadet ASPs must possess a university degree or a Higher National Diploma (HND).