PSC Unveils 11-Man Board Members To Recruit Police Officers

• The Police Service Commission inaugurated an 11-member board for the Nigeria Police Force recruitment, with Onyemuche Nnamani as Chairman
• The board’s responsibilities include declaring vacancies, developing recruitment guidelines, and ensuring transparency and fairness in the process

The Police Service Commission (PSC) formally inaugurated 11 members of the board that will conduct the Nigeria Police Force recruitment exercise on Monday.

Members of the board, who were inaugurated at the commission’s headquarters, include the Commissioner representing the South East zone at the PSC, Onyemuche Nnamani, as Chairman, and Olabode Akinbamilowo, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, as Secretary.

Other members of the board include the DIG in charge of the police’s Development Training Department, Muhammed Magaji from the Ministry of Police Affairs, Ifeoma Anyanwutaku, the PSC’s Permanent Secretary, Prof. Joseph Olowofela from the FCC, and CP Hassan Yabanet, the Representative of Police Colleges.

Yusuf Sanusi of the PSC’s Recruitment Department, Sani Usman Hada of the PSC’s ICT unit, Barr. Victoria Onyekwuluije of the PSC’s Legal Department and DSP Ahanmisi Obehi of the PSC’s Office of the Chairman were also present.

During the inauguration, the Chairman of the PSC, Solomon Arase, stated that the recruitment process would begin soon, adding that it came on the heels of Presidential approval for the annual recruitment of 10,000 personnel into the Force.

According to Arase, it was part of Tinubu’s electioneering campaign promise to strengthen the Nigeria Police for optimal functionality in resolving Nigeria’s insecurity challenge.

He stated that while recruiting qualified people of good character and conduct is a difficult task, it can be made easier with the cooperation and assistance of our community leaders, traditional and religious institutions.

Every Nigerian who is desirous of Police Reforms in our dear country is, therefore, implored to assist the Board during the recruitment exercise by ensuring that the bad eggs in the society are not foist on the Board, and/or allowed to surreptitiously get recruited into the NPF without alerting the Board through whistle-blowing, Arase added.

The PSC listed some of the board’s responsibilities as determining and declaring available vacancies in the NPF that must be filled, as well as developing guidelines for every recruitment process in the Nigeria Police Force.

Others include, among other things, determining the online platform to be used in advertorials and applicant recruitment, as well as placing advertorials in national dailies and other forms of information dissemination on recruitment.

The former IGP, on the other hand, advised the board members to avoid corruption in all of its forms, saying they should “strive like Caesar’s wife to be above board in the conduct of the recruitment exercise.”