*Insist it’s best in UN peace mission, Africa, one of the best in the world By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-CONTRARY to a report credited to two foreign bodies, The International Police Association and the Institute for Economics and Peace, which described it as the worst in the world, the Nigeria Police Force has rated itself not only as the best in the United Nations Peace Keeping Operations and Africa but also one of the best in the world.

The report was a fallout of the 2016 World Internal Security and Police Index, WISPI, credited to two bodies, The International Police Association and the Institute for Economics and Peace. The report claimed to have measured the ability of the police to address Internal Security Issues in 127 Countries in four key areas of capacity, process, legitimacy and outcomes. But reacting to the report which was carried by an online medium, The Cable, Friday, the Force Headquarters said it rejected the report in its entirety, saying the framers of the so called rating were out to blackmail the Nigeria Police. The reaction came just as the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, assured Nigerians, international community and stakeholders of policing with integrity and international core values and world best practices. “Nigeria Police Force is the best in UN Peace Keeping Operations, best in Africa, one of the best in the world. The Force rejects the report as unempirical and absolute falsehood, and should be disregarded and discountenanced, “the police high command said in a statement released to the media through Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP. ” The Nigeria Police Force after a careful study of the report and the news items emanating from it, wishes to state categorically that the report is entirely misleading, a clear misrepresentation of facts and figures and essentially unempirical, considering the area of coverage of the report which was said to have been carried out in 2016 by the above mentioned associations, “the Force Headquarters’ statement said. The statement read further:” The report did not take into cognisance the significant improvement in the areas of capacity building, training and re-training of the entire personnel of the force as provided for by the current Federal Government of Nigeria and other foreign and local NGOs which has greatly improved the efficiency and service delivery of the personnel of the Force throughout the country. ” It is pertinent to state that the instruments used to evaluate the performance of the Force vis-à-vis that of other countries is absolutely incorrect and grossly inadequate and therefore a plain distortion of facts and figures. ” The strength of about 370,000 police personnel in the country stands at around one policeman to less than 600 people in a population estimates of 180,000,000 Nigerians. ” The statement further read:” It is equally significant to state that the current recruitment of additional 10,000 police personnel into the Force by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the request by the Inspector General of Police to Government for approval of the recruitment of 31,000 police personnel yearly for a period of five years will definitely increase the strength of the Force to meet up with the UN ratio of one policeman to 400 citizens. In the UN Peace Keeping System, the Nigeria Police Force is rated as the best in UN Peace keeping operations in the world. This clearly shows that the Nigeria Police Force is not and cannot be the worst in the world under any known scientific yardstick or measuring instrument. ” Currently, the Nigeria Police Force is one of the only two African delegates representing the whole of Africa continent on the executive committee of Interpol, a position the Force attained based on high performance, merit and sustained good track records. ” For avoidance of doubt, since the inception of the present Police administration in July 2016, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, has introduced and implemented diverse internal reforms aimed at improving capacity building and efficient service delivery of the personnel of the Force, which is yielding positive results in the standardization of the capability of the Nigeria Police Force to deal with violent crimes and terrorism throughout the country. ” The establishment and take-off of a world class Terrorism Investigation Bureau for the Force with state-of-the-art equipment and technical support from foreign partners has greatly improved the capacity of the Force to deal with threats posed to internal security in this regard. “However, it must be pointed out that the Nigeria Police Force sees the report as a clear demonstration of mischief, ignorance and calculated attempt to distort the feat being recorded by the Force in ensuring adequate security and safety of Nigerians. ” Nowhere in the report were references made to either the improved capacity or achievements recorded by the Nigeria Police Force across the country in the recent time, the Force therefore implores all Nigerians and international community to disregard the report as unfounded and misleading. “The renewed determination of the Force to adhere to Internal Police Reforms for greater efficiency in service delivery and conform to standard principles, building trust and confidence in the citizenry for their safety remain unequivocal and unwavering.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/nigerian-police-reject-ranking-worlds-worst/

Ranking them was a mistake in the first place. Look at these group of armed legal rubbers calling themselves police. They are supposed to be rankles

Mynd44 rank this to the promise land

Instead of them to improve they are rejecting the truth ..There is no police in world that can be worse than tje Nigerian police in extortion , indiscipline and ineffectiveness ..Non

The report is right. You just need one encounter with the police to know

Well, they'd at least try to save their face.
...But deep down, they know they are Category A. scumbags.

A pig at home will always be a pig outside.... Even their leader is facing corruption charges.... Most of them are disgrace to the force and the country at large...

The NPF was right in rejecting the ratings because they shouldn't even be classified as a police organization and shouldn't have been on that list since they are nothing but a legitimized armed robbery unit of the FGN.

They should be rated as the world's worst criminal organization which is exactly what the NPF is and has always being.

I passed Abeokuta- Iseyin road some days back, about 25 check points all collecting money from transporters and motorists..i was nauseated when one of them leered at a female passenger and commented on her "beauty".

The Nigerian police is the black beating heart of Nigerian corruption, they are the thugs that protect their Mafia bosses (the politicians and officials,.

Any police officer with probable cause should be able to arrest even the President for corruption in a real democracy.

Its good for the world organisations to bring out these facts even though the Nigerian powers deny them, we the people will keep these facts in the file so that when its time to sack this government and this system we can show the reasons why.

How long shall we continue this way?

I want to ask an honest question

Does Buharri and the federal government know that the police are committing corrupt practices like these

1. Extorting money from every motorist?
2. Torturing suspects for accusations of fighting or threat of another person?
3. Illegally arresting and detaining innocent Nigerians?
4. Supporting herdsmen to terrorise locals in their farms and arresting people who resist?
5. Conducting a stop and search operation in the centre of the city and slowing down traffic for hours and at the end, finding nothing incriminating from anybody for months?
6. Refusing to release suspects for flimsy offences except you pay a hefty fine in thousands of naira?

Is the federal government deceiving us with their fake fight of corruption while corruption is in their life blood?

Go to owerri porthacourt road. On a typical Saturday like this nd see how many check points are set up. They are a complete embarrassment to Nigeria. Just give them #50 and it’s all right.if I have like #5000 I can easily transport contraband across 100km of federal road. It’s such a shame.

I'm just here to read comments.

So far, so good

do they want to be ranked as world best before they can do the best?

See the useless NPF striving to compete among civilized humanity.

Truth they say is better.could there be any police force in the world as bad as the Nigeria police force?i have my doubt.

Of course they should reject it. I will wonder what the organization which compiled that list was high on when they included Nigerian police as part of their list. NPF is not even qualified to be on that list to start with.
To appease the NPF they should also make a list of the most corrupt and insane police forces around the world. I am sure when the NPF sees that they came 1st in that list, they would be appeased

Do they have a choice? ??

Please Nigerian police, tell us your rank then, there is no country in the world that their Chief Law Enforcer are accused as ours, from Tafa Balogun to Ehindero corruption to the Jigawa man's politicking to the edo man stealing cars to the current IG impregnating surbodinates and raking 10 billion naira monthly, the fish rots from the head.
Nigerian police, here is my sad truth, you are the worst law enforcement agency since the beginning of time.

worst.....terrible pple

worst is an understatement, Nigeria police are professional thieves.

which rank do they want then

which rank do they want then

The useless nigeria police are the worst of the worst.

If you don't have money to defend yourself any buffoon can intimidate you with the police. They are just DOGS FOR HIRE.

Black and black (naija police) are the most dangerous gun Player's in the world

Imagine these state sponsored armed robbers making noise.

Too bad. The service is long overdue for image cleansing. Time for the real men and women to stand up and be counted.