The Police
Service Commission has at 7.30am today, Tuesday, April 19th,
received 705,352 applications from applicants who are seeking employment into
the recently advertised 10,000 vacancies into the Nigeria Police Force.
President
Muhammadu Buhari at last year’s National Security Summit had approved the
recruitment of 10,000 police men into the nation’s Police Force to reinforce
the Nigeria Police for better service.
A breakdown
of the applications showed that 202, 427 applicants have successfully applied
for the position of Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), 169,446,
for the position of Cadet Inspector and 333,479 for the position of Constables.
The
Commission will be recruiting 500 Cadet Asps, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1,500
Specialist Officers and 7, 500 Constables to meet the President’s approved 10,000
new entrants into the Force.
The Chairman
of the Commission, Sir Dr. Mike Mbama Okiro, retired Inspector General of
Police, confirmed in Abuja that the process of receiving the forms has been
smooth and transparent. He explained that the Commission is committed to making
the recruitment exercise a huge exercise, adding that the Commission will
continue to make the process of the recruitment transparent.
He assured
the applicants of fairness and equal opportunity since the Commission is only
interested in recruiting for the Police the best brains in the society.
Dr. Okiro
said he is excited with the huge interest shown by Nigerians in entering the Police Force.
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