I was inside my flat, at around 8pm, when I received a phone call from my Landlady that I should turn-off my Generating set, that Armed Robbers are in the street. I dashed out to switch it off, then I realised that I was ignorance of the happenings in my environment. There was total silence cos everyone had switch off their Gen and all I could hear was the sound of Armed Robber, trying to break into a house. Then, I quickly dialed the Nigerian Police Number, Port Harcourt control centre. They received it and took my details and was assured that they will come. This is my first time of calling the Nigeria Police. About 30minutes after I called, I receive a call from the Police trying to get my address. Firstly, we spent close to 7 minutes trying to describe my street. Secondly, they couldn't even pronounce the name of the street, so I had to spell. They were frequently calling for close to 10 times, before they could locate my street. When they finally arrived at around 10:19pm, they called me out and asked for money for fuel. I was like, what! Oh no, Nigerian Police. So, I told them I was coming. I went inside, pretended as if I was going to get money. I took 500Naira from my pocket, went back to them and told that 500 Naira was all I could get. Oh boy! Them nearly slap me o. One of them said, "are we the one you want to give this. If to say armed robber enter your house, na 500 Naira you go give them?". At this juncture, I wanted to cry, not because of their intimidation but because of the fact that Nigerian Police has lost thier honour. I felt like I had called thieves to rescue me from armed robbers.

My conclusion:
- I think the Police needs total reformation and reorientation, I'm not sure some of them know who a policeman is.
- We need community policing so that we can have police who are familiar with the terrain instead of having people from another states.
- Every state should do street signage the way Fashola did in Lagos. This will make one to know the names of street in an area right from the juction close to the area. I wouldn't have been able to describe the road if the thieves haf gain entrance.
- There should be a unified police numeber and should be a short code, like 911.

Guys, you are free to share your experience and what you think can be done to reform the Nigerian Police. Thank you.

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ALOT

May the police men who treaated u ythat way lose their jobs.

Rubbish!

Buhari had better get to work!
I hate nigeria btw.

It was really a funny scenario....happend this night.

Of what use is Nigeria police to Nigerians sef?

Legal armed robbers wearing government issued uniforms.been legally employed by the government to intimidate,harass,kill and steal/illegally task the public.

Thebachelor:
The fact is no intelligent and honest youngman wants to join the police force. So the question is,if every intelligent and honest youngman is avoiding the force who then will make the difference? Therefore I beg you all to please,for the love of the country,pick a Police Academy form and let's hit the force and make a difference. It is the most demoralised,dishonest,and any other adjective you can think about institution in the country. That said though,there some few good men in the police force like Abba Kyari.

You made a valid point dear...but the system should be made attractive and suitable to intelligent minds; they can even start recruiting from our higher institutions.

I like that part where you used Fashola as a benchmark

hotice01:
Legal armed robbers wearing government issued uniforms.been legally employed by the government to intimidate,harass,kill and steal/illegally task the public.

Exactly.That is who they are. Nothing short of that. They were responding to the call in order to get money and not the armed robbers themselves.

Let the police be sent to Maidugiri to do policing and not here.