Righthussle:
Fools

Totilopussylick:


You owned them 3 months salaries and sack them at same time without paying them.


How are these men won't end up as harden criminals tomorrow while trying to survive

naptu2:
THEY ARE NOT REGULAR POLICEMEN!

Dear diary, do you remember back when I was always explaining what supernumerary police was? I explained it on very many other threads as well as this one because I saw lots of funny comments. It seems like I will soon have to do the same for special constabularies.


There is a Dutch woman named Noraly Schoenmaker (aka Itchy Boots), who travels around the world on a motorcycle and she does a vlog about her travels.

She travelled through Nigeria in October. She came in from Benin Republic, travelled up to Abuja (to get a Cameroon visa) and then went from Abuja to Cameroon. Her vlog was very interesting.

She passed through a lot of checkpoints on the way and her interactions with policemen and soldiers were very interesting. Most of her interactions were positive, with the policemen and soldiers offering advice and joking with her. However, for people that don't watch her vlog, this has been overshadowed by her interaction with two special constabularies.

What are special constabularies

Community policing

There has been a long running debate in Nigeria. Some people believ that the structure of the Nigerian Police Force is wrong. They believe that it is wrong to have policemen that can be posted to any state and who live in barracks. They believe that policemen should be from the local community and live among the people (community policing), so that they'll know the community very well and know the problems in the community.

Others believe that policemen that are part of the community in that way will be biased and cannot be impartial.


Special constabulary

Professor Yemi Osinbajo believed that we should have some form of community policing and he basically championed the idea in the last administration. This led to the expansion of the Special Constabulary.

In the UK special constabulary are part-time volunteer policemen.

In Nigeria, the Special Constabulary platform was used to achieve the idea of community policing.

States were asked to nominate people to become special constables. These special constables are meant to be members of the community in which they will operate. They were given a little police training by the Nigerian Police Force and they are expected to assist regular policemen with their knowledge of the community.


It was 2 of those special constables that demanded money from Itchy Boots.

That incident backs up what I wrote on this thread some months ago. Someone advocated for community policing and said that community policemen would not be antagonistic to civilians and would not demand bribes from them. I replied that there is community policing in the United States, yet policemen are antagonistic to civilians and also demand bribes, so community policing won't solve the problem.

I have my own theory about why regular policemen were very nice to Itchy Boots, while the Special Constabularies demanded for money.

Regular policemen are more experienced and they would know that demanding money from her would get them in trouble. That would be very clear to them (note: I am not saying that there are no nice policemen. There are, but the bad eggs would also not ask Norally for money because they know that they would get in trouble).

Unfortunately many civilians see the uniformed services as an opportunity to bully people and extort money from them and I am certain that some peoole will join the Special Constabulary with that idea, yet they are not as experienced as regular policemen.

Totilopussylick:


You owned them 3 months salaries and sack them at same time without paying them.


How are these men won't end up as harden criminals tomorrow while trying to survive

naptu2:
They belong to the Special Constabulary, not the regular police force.

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission has complained that state governments set up these special constabularies, but do not pay the men. He has also called for a separate uniform for them because they are denting the image of the Police Force.

Dotmanq:

That's what people are not looking at. They are only looking at their offence.
3 good months salary without payment. Why won't they demand money from anyone that plied the road. This could really go as an excuse for them to even extort.
How have they been living without salary?

Hurbashola:
WE DON’T COLLECT SALARY - VIRAL TWO EX POLICE OFFICER CRIES OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_azk63P_yw8

Viral two nigeria police force captured in a viral video demanding money from a Dutch woman rider along Iseyin/Ogbomosho Road in Oyo, Oyo State has tell their own side of story that they were not given any of their salary even after their dismissal

ayo2008:


They are just scape goats

Many of them are still collecting bribes in major roads in Nigeria

Racoon:
The bigger ogas @ the top do their own and get scot free but omo isè they collect. Nigeria never happen to us.