Most people in Nigeria cannot stand a police man. The atmosphere is always tense when a policeman is around.
People have horrible stories about how the police refuse to respond to distress calls, or forcefully and illegally detain suspects or take innocent people for bail money or take a bribe to be partial in a dispute or out rightly force a bribe out of a citizen. But there are a few things you do not know about Police welfare and the police force.

1. An average Policeman earns between 32,000 and 75,000 Naira a Month. Big Officers earn less than 180,000. (How does a man earning 32k maintain a home?)

2. A policeman can be transferred from his posting e.g. Ebute meta and told to report in Abakaliki on the next Monday without prior notice. He is not given 50 Naira either as transport of mobilization or resettlement grant. He must report and continue his work as before

3. A policeman shot on duty or some other mishap in the line of responding to a distress call is sent away to treat himself, by himself, at his cost(na out of this 30k a month o!)

4. A policeman who stumbles upon a robbery or an incidence and responds instinctively could be charged by his office for non-duty engagement. So if you see a policeman guarding a bank (with his limited bullet and assault rifle) and he hears an attack in the next house beside the bank, if he responds, he is going to face the fury of the Police Commissioner (Not commendation)

5. A lot of young(er) police officers have no home. They sleep in the police stations and some even in the exhibit cars parked at the police station (e.g. Accident recovered vehicles, or recovered from being stolen). Ask around!

6. Policemen are serving the country with their money. They are made to sew the Police Uniform. Yes, they pay for all those Uniforms you see them wearing and boots and kit and all. (Out of this 40 or 30 thousand a month)

7. A lot of police officer do not have a smart phone. They simply cannot afford that 20,000 Naira Tecno that you are using. They hold this 3 thousand Naira Nokia (and most are second hand).

8. Police make calls for their duty on their own bills.

9. Many cases you hear about a policeman shooting a victim for N20 or a bus driver is very false information. Some of these policemen have shot in the legal discharge of their duties, e.g. in crime scene shootout. Once a stray bullets kills someone, vindictive reporting takes over and the Police commissioner, or IG would gladly sacrifice the policeman than investigate. The innocent guy rots in jail.

10. The family of a Policeman who is killed in active service would get less than 100,000 Naira. Sometimes, this money can take up to 5 years to get to the family.

11. Policemen get to fund the fueling of the Patrol Vehicles (Ask around please)

12. Many policemen (more than 65%) have never punched a computer Keyboard. They do not use a Police database to fight crime and are supposed to be able to track criminals who are rich, smart and intelligent(How does he even identify suspects). No standing crime or arrest database in Nigeria

Some Police details are following senators and the policeman is made to carry the Ghana-Must-Go bag loaded with 15 Million Naira to share at a political allegiance meeting for instance. If these men were half as evil as we think, they should shoot these guys everyday because some of these policemen hardly eat once a day.


There are many more unbelievable stories you would not know until you have a friend in the police force.

cc: lalasticlala mynd44

hmm, most times we need to be on the shoes of others before we judge, no man holy pass. God help us all

Zoo Republic

Op u're right 95%..
Our policemen needs more support from the masses to enable them serve u well....
They are humans too and pass through the same challenges the common man suffers.
The difference between the average policeman is just the uniform and knowledge of the law.. .

Btw: take a tour around most police barracks and get a clear picture of what our policemen are passing though and witness the kind of conditions they live under..

Op nice one i know this might change the mindset of some nigerians about the police, they really need our surport. Lalasticlala pls do the needfull

It shall not be well with the entire police force in Nigeria.
They are killers.

Eeya... just getting to know...
Nigeria....
Thank God I am a Mexican!!

if the work no good for there body make them resign naa...na we send them work?...why them no dey unleash there frustration for politicians and the top oga them wey dey frustrate them,instead na we wey dey follow them suffer them dey come frustrate...why there stray bullet no dey ever hit big men na only poor man there stray bullet dey see abi?...na there wickedness na him make god dey punish them with small salary.... in short Nigeria police no need pity but this....

Chai! Nigeria is hell... No wonder them dey collect money for road... Dem turn beggar.

BiafraBushBoy:
Eeya... just getting to know...
Nigeria....
Thank God I am a Mexican!!

Oga Abegi forget all these tori. Don't they know all these before applying?
1)Are they forced to stay on the job?
2)And thousand of people still apply for this same job when the recruitment came out if it was as bad as you portray it.

Most of these people are thieves,greedy bastards and wolves in human clothing.
Is that why they behave inhumanly to their fellow human whom they swore to protect with their lives?
To be in the police force is not by force,if they are not happy,they can just resign and stop disgracing and embarrassing themselves.
Even that 30k, we have some graduate that will still make do with that and never misbehave.

Smallville10:

Tu sin greto??
Gracias...
Hahahahaha!! Wetin happen??

nice ..

BiafraBushBoy:


Tu sin greto??

Gracias...

Hahahahaha!! Wetin happen??

no o notin... I just hear say e get one place for mexico wey dem dey call 'Biafra'

Smallville10:
no o notin... I just hear say e get one place for mexico wey dem dey call 'Biafra'

hahahahaha....

Na name of street ooo!...

So I just dey rep my street for mexico...