As the screening of candidates for selection for the next stage of the on-going recruitment exercise into the Constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force ends, Wednesday, January 31st 2024, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase, a retired Inspector-General of Police, has declared that what the nation needs now are Policemen who are mentally mobile with fertile minds and who can relate with the public.
He spoke in Abuja Tuesday, when he paid a courtesy visit on the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Martriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, where he discussed the need for the examination body to conduct the Computer-Based Tests for the Constable applicants.
Dr. Arase who also led the Management team of the Commission to the meeting stated that the Police Force he joined 42 years ago was knowledge-based with Officers who can relate with the public and engender love and confidence, according to Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations, PSC, in a statement.
According to Ani, Dr. Arase told the Registrar that “there is need for a paradigm shift in the recruitment of Nigerian youths into the Force”, adding that “if the Commission can get 50 percent high flyers with this recruitment, the progression to a better and effective Police Service would have started”.
He added that “mentally mobile Police men will have self-confidence and capable of discharging their duties creditably”.
He announced that going forward, the JAMB CBTs will be done first, before the screening exercises so that those with questionable certificates will 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,” Arase stressed.
Prof. Oloyede eulogiesed the PSC Chairman 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 our diverse population and get the best for every state and zone.
