The Federal Government has been urged to set up a
special committee to visit police formations in the
country.
Mr Joseph Mbu (AIG), Commandant, Police Staff
College, made the call during interview with News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Jos on Sunday.
“There is decay; there is neglect; what we have on
ground is not conducive for the reform programme
we all yearn for.
“Many projects in the training institutions have been
abandoned”, Mbu said.
He stressed that the nation must invest more in the
police force so as to get the best service from it
and effect the change crucial for a better Nigeria.
“Nigerians want an improved police force in line
with the change mantra, but the institutions that
train the personnel are in a state of utter decay.’’
He held that management and personnel of the
police were doing a lot, and that officers on
strategic courses in the college would feel more
encouraged, for instance, if they were fed by the
force.
“That gesture would give them the time to fully
concentrate without distractions.
“The police profile is rising, but there is no need for
course participants here to feed themselves;
government should feed them to make them feel
cared for and that will in turn ginger them to make
more sacrifices for the nation.”
On the officers recently trained on strategic
leadership and command by the PSC, he said that
they must be courageous and lead their teams like
lions.
“I have often told the officers that a team of lions
led by a sheep will behave like a sheep, while a
team of sheep led by a lion will behave like a lion”,
he said.
He challenged officers to be hardworking and
exemplary, saying that he had always emphasised
an “iron handling of the personnel’’ as the best
strategy toward maximum output.
Mbu cautioned trainees, usually of the
commissionership cadre, against greed and lust for
material things, and insisted that they must stand
up for truth and tell leaders the implications of
crude tactics they may want to pursue.
“You could be posted as a police commissioner to
a state where the governor, as chief security officer,
may want to lord it over you, but you must assert
the fact that you will be responsible for controlling
any trouble whenever it starts.
“So, you must insist on doing only what is right and
say no when asked to do the wrong thing.
“You should not disrespect the governor, but you
must insist that respect must be mutual.
“It is also important to know that your name, status
and integrity will be in the mud immediately you
start compromising your roles just to get some
reward; it takes nothing less than 27 years to
become a police commissioner, so do not play with
your dignity.”
He advised police officers to assess their personnel
based on hard work instead of asking for “any
returns”, and promised that the force would stoutly
defend any officer who made genuine mistakes in
the course of his duties.
Mbu also advised them against abusing their
powers, stressing that all obligations must be within
regulation
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/police-training-institutions-in-utter-decay-mbu/

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