As the screening of candidates for the next stage of the ongoing recruitment exercise as Constables in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) ends Wednesday, the Chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC), IGP Solomon Arase (retd.) has said policemen who are mentally mobile with fertile minds, and can relate with the public was what the country needed in the face of daunting security challenges.
A press statement by PSC Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, said the commission’s boss made this known when he paid a courtesy visit on the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Martriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said Arase discussed the needed conditions for the examination body to conduct the Computer Based Tests (CBT) for the applicants.
Arase who also led the PSC management team to the meeting noted that the NPF he joined 42 years ago was knowledge-based with officers who could relate with the public and engender love and confidence.
He told the Registrar that there was need for a paradigm shift in the recruitment of Nigerian youths into the Force, adding that if the commission could get 50 per cent high flyers with the recruitment, the progression to a better and effective police service would have started.
The commission’s boss added that mentally mobile police men would have self confidence and capable of discharging their duties creditably.
He announced that going forward, the JAMB CBT would be done first before the screening exercises so that those with questionable certificates would be weeded out if they can not defend the certificates they brandish.
“We want to give Nigerians police men who should be able to hold their own and with constant training, the sky will be their limit,” he stated.
On his part, the JAMB Register eulogised Arase on his track record of leadership accomplishments and noted that he was happy to associate with him and the project of giving Nigeria a brand new and qualitative police officers who will serve the nation with dignity.
He advised that the recruitment exercise should take note of the peculiarities of the nation’s diverse population and get the best for every state and zone.
