Jaun2:
Make Dem increase them abhi, d hungry man wey go join police as of today, joined so e go dey see bribe collect.

Kushites:


Spare me this crap.

The reason you are walking free on the streets now and safe in your house is because of Nigerian policemen.

If you think it is that your silly gate or fence that is protecting you from armed robbers, you be real fool.

Those policemen patrol the streets at night in vehicles, risking their lives to keep you safe behind that your ajebota fence and gate.

Kushites:
Nigeria is terribly under-policed.

Just 300,000 policemen for a population of 230 million people!

It makes no sense.

I read somewhere we have 1 policeman per 6000 people, or something silly like that.

That is totally unacceptable.

Of course, state police is the best option by most people's analyses, to end insecurity, but if the FG is too scared to allow that, then for goodness' sakes, BEEF UP THE POLICE SIZE AS A MATTER OF IMMEDIACY.

By now there should be well-publicised HEAVY RECRUITMENT DRIVES for police officers, with vastly improved salaries and equipment including vehicles.

A MINIMUM 1 MILLION POLICE OFFICERS is what is required to end this nonsense called insecurity, and we must do it NOW!!!!!!

Kushites:


Spare me this crap.

The reason you are walking free on the streets now and safe in your house is because of Nigerian policemen.

If you think it is that your silly gate or fence that is protecting you from armed robbers, you be real fool.

Those policemen patrol the streets at night in vehicles, risking their lives to keep you safe behind that your ajebota fence and gate.

Kushites:
Nigeria is terribly under-policed.

Just 300,000 policemen for a population of 230 million people!

It makes no sense.

I read somewhere we have 1 policeman per 6000 people, or something silly like that.

That is totally unacceptable.

Of course, state police is the best option by most people's analyses, to end insecurity, but if the FG is too scared to allow that, then for goodness' sakes, BEEF UP THE POLICE SIZE AS A MATTER OF IMMEDIACY. you dont under pay men with guns. only state capable of running state police in nigeria is lagos state. recruiting 1million police men is not the issue. paying them and managing their recurrent expenses is the issue. we both know how underproductive our population is. we over rely on govt for every thing thats why despite how bad we insult govt, people still pray for govt job than private job.

By now there should be well-publicised HEAVY RECRUITMENT DRIVES for police officers, with vastly improved salaries and equipment including vehicles.

A MINIMUM 1 MILLION POLICE OFFICERS is what is required to end this nonsense called insecurity, and we must do it NOW!!!!!!

Kushites:
Nigeria is terribly under-policed.

Just 300,000 policemen for a population of 230 million people!

It makes no sense.

I read somewhere we have 1 policeman per 6000 people, or something silly like that.

That is totally unacceptable.

Of course, state police is the best option by most people's analyses, to end insecurity, but if the FG is too scared to allow that, then for goodness' sakes, BEEF UP THE POLICE SIZE AS A MATTER OF IMMEDIACY. .

By now there should be well-publicised HEAVY RECRUITMENT DRIVES for police officers, with vastly improved salaries and equipment including vehicles.

A MINIMUM 1 MILLION POLICE OFFICERS is what is required to end this nonsense called insecurity, and we must do it NOW!!!!!!

matify83:
Nigeria is really not "under policed" with the proliferation of " security agencies" in multifarious forms in the landscape.

It is the absence of shared intelligence and outright working at cross purpose that creates the illusion of an understanding policed state.

There are several agencies with powers to arrest. Infact, the citizens also have a constitutional power to arrest criminals and handover to the police.

I want to believe that crimes and criminality seems to be on the ascendance because justice is not being swiftly dispensed with or seemed to be done in some cases.

Even if you increase the sheer number of personnel without an effective judicial system, we will only be recycling criminals back into the society more hardened.

For those tinkering with the idea of state police, remember it was so in the beginning. Then there was even the native police. All had to be scrapped for this unitary system because of their high handedness and were willing tools for politicians.

What do you think would have happened if some state governors had a police under their call in the last election? You guess is as good as mine.

The police as presently constituted needs to leverage on technology to act as a force multiplier.
CCTV cameras, drones, and automated alarm systems can effectively and efficiently do the work of a thousand police men.

Kushites:


Good points, but I don't think we're quite ready to rely on CCTV and so on, especially in relation to the attacks in rural areas. I think we underestimate the effects of good ol' Boots on the Ground in terms of police numbers.

Flood an area with police and see how fast the so-called bandits disappear into the woods.