Police recruitment: ‘Why the North is gaining the edge

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

’INVESTIGATIONS have revealed reasons the authorities of the Nigeria Police are giving preferential treatment to indigenes of northern states, who are already enlisted in the rank and file of the force, as it is aimed at given the regions of the North an edge in the establishment.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that though the force planned to uplift all graduates who were already enlisted in the rank and file of the paramilitary outfit, by sending them for training at the police college, the training programme could not be concluded after the first batch, because only few candidates from the North were qualified in the second list.

A signal sent from the administrative department of the police force to all the 36 states, including Abuja, directed indigenes of the 16 northern states in the rank and file, who had university degrees, to report to the administrative department.

According to sources, the Police Service Commission (PSC), headed by Mr Mike Okiro in 2007, recommended that all graduates within the rank and file of the force should be upgraded to the rank of senior officer.

Following the recommendation, a qualifying examination was organised for the 2,884 graduates that registered, which was held at Staff College, Jos.

After the examination, it was discovered that candidates of northern origin were not many in the list of those who made the 63 per cent cut-off mark, a reason the special cut-off mark of 25 per cent was designed for those from the northern states.

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