NIGERIAN police are the worst paid in the West African sub-region, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Parry Osayande said yesterday.

But the officers should not despair as the Police Re-organisation Committee is set to recommend an upward review of the salary structure of the in its report.

Besides, the committee, recently constituted by President Goodluck Jonathan to reposition the police, also plans to recommend a total overhaul of the institution.

Osayande, who also chairs the reorganisation committee, spoke in chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on yesterday.

According to him, the total overhaul of the police had become imperative so as to restore its past glory. Osayande said that the committee would also recommend massive training and re-training of officers while all the existing training institutions would be rehabilitated and equipped.

He said: “So, we are going to do a major overhaul. If we may use medical parlance, a complete dialysis of the force. Then, we will now take their welfare into consideration. They are underpaid, the worst paid in West Africa. Then we shall lay emphasis on their training and retraining.

“That means, all the police institutions will be refurbished. If need be, we build more in all the geo-political zones.”

On communication gadgets for the police, Osayande maintained that the committee would recommend modern communication equipment to enable the force discharge its duties diligently and with professionalism.

“Policing involves communication because if you post three million policemen in different places and you cannot communicate with them, they are on their own on the island.

“So, emphasis will have to be on modernisation of our communication equipment throughout the length and breadth of this country and of course transportation.

“We are going to try and back police operations with science and technology. That means there will be forensic science laboratory and the rest of them.”

According to him, the police will continue to embrace professionalism to enable it enforce the laws of the land, protect lives and properties of the citizens as well as to prevent and detect crimes.

“Everybody will be a professional; a professional detective; a professional intelligent gatherer, and so on.”  

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