The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has started compiling a list of its junior officers who hold either a BSc or an HND in a relevant field.
Heads of all commands were told to send an exhaustive list of Inspectors and rank & file under them with BSc. or HND qualifications in an urgent police wireless message from the Force headquarters, Admin and Welfare, Abuja dated 29 September 2023.
The wireless transmission, labeled 4001/WEL/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.10/48, also requested a list of junior rank lawyers be sent to the force headquarters from the Commissioners of Police.
Ingenpol directs as a matter of urgency, that you send a thorough list of all Inspectors and rank & file serving under you who are graduates of BSC/HND and attorneys; this was decoded from the normally encrypted police signal.
The list should be organized as follows: Serial No., AP/F No., Rank, Name, Gender, Birth Date, Date Enlisted, Date of Last Promotion, School Attended, Discipline, Graduation Date, Call to Bar Date (for Lawyers), Phone No., Email Address, etc.
The list is due no later than October 6, 2023, as emphasized by the office of the Inspector-General’s Secretary.
The note, which was intended for the police commissioners, was marked as urgent and urged them to make no mistakes.
According to information obtained by our correspondent, the NPF intends to promote college grads already serving in the force to the prestigious position of Superintendent in the police force.
In June, Dr. Solomon Arase, chairman of the Police Service Commission, announced that in the future, younger police officers with degrees in law or other disciplines would be considered for promotion.
The commission “may decide to send these categories of police lawyers and other junior policemen with additional qualifications on short-service training, after which they would be properly placed as officers,” Arase was quoted as saying during a meeting with lawyers in June.
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