The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, says the dispute between the Police Service Commission (PSC), and the Police hierarchy over who should recruit policemen into the force has been resolved.
Baba disclosed this while addressing officers and men of the Police Command in Niger, at the command’s headquarters in Minna on Thursday.
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He said that now that the dispute was over, recruitment into the force would commence in earnest.
According to him, between now and 2022 no fewer than 20,000 policemen will be engaged in the force to boost its manpower.
“Our problem with the Police Service Commission on who recruits is over, the recruitment which we started in 2020 will be completed soon,” he said.
He also disclosed that training and retraining of officers and men of the force would now be given top priority, adding that police colleges would now be made more functional as the trainees in the colleges ” will now eat and sleep there”.
He also said that he is a member of a National Committee looking into the accommodation of policemen, pointing out that the committee had decided that not less than 1,500 houses were to be provided for policemen in 2021.
Baba also revealed that a committee was presently reviewing police pensions and welfare of officers and men, adding that “we will work on our emoluments and pensions; we will work on our logistics”. (NAN)
