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Despite the constant restructuring, reformation and re-organisation of the Nigeria Police Force from 1930 to date, the police are not up to 370, 000 in a multifaceted country with a projected population of about 300 million and above. How could peace be achieved in Nigeria? Regarding the above-mentioned figures, this is grossly insufficient. Nigeria needs to have an average of 2.5 million police officers across the nation to ensure effective policing.
Notwithstanding, the Nigeria Police Force, as the leading law enforcement agency in Nigeria, and one of the closest security agencies to the population shouldn’t be insufficient hence the need is to maintain laws and order, and internal security and to protect the lives and properties of the Nigerian within the shores of the nation. Despite its inadequacy, the agency has been classified as one of the most corrupt and inefficient security agencies in Nigeria. After the agency has been suffering from extreme corruption at the hands of some unscrupulous elements for many years, multiple of our towns and villages with huge populations are said to be with zero police officers as such many lives are vulnerable to insecurity.
Annoyingly, despite the noise made by the Federal Government to provide adequate security to the nation, most of the nation’s towns and villages have no police officers or soldiers. The issue of bribery and inadequacy has been contributing to the nation’s insecurity. The unscrupulous elements within the midst of the police should be penalised or sacked to bring the desired security to the masses across the nooks and crannies of the nation.
The Federal Government should note that with current number of police officers, Nigeria can’t guarantee security. The more the population, the more the crimes, hence the need is to provide a secure nation, and police personnel should be adequately recruited in no time.
Fatima Shu’aibu, Borno State.
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