Insecurity: Rep advocates decentralisation of Police Force
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he told news agency of nigeria nan in abuja that dismantling the force was necessary as its current structure was too big to be managed by one person1 according to him if we have a system where we have police for traffic terrorism financial crimes election matters and are all independent you will not have an overwhelmed igp1 shawulu said that the 2016 security and policing global index showed that nigeria police in terms of processes was the last in the world1 he explained that the factors considered for the ranking included effectiveness of the police the processes and public perception of the police1 in the nigerias system you are not sure of anything at all for instance the public order act says that the state governor issues permit for public rallies1 he said that the first point of call for people in distress ought to be the police but regretted that people did not have confidence in the police1 according to him not properly funding trained armed men to do their job could make them veritable tools to increase insecurity in the country1 what i think is that we should put all the options on the table and do what we should do unbundle the police force it is too big it is not achieving what it needs to achieve1 we have 350000 policemen on our records but the streets do not have policemen when there is a distress call we do not have policemen there1 why is it so it is because the police among other reasons are commanded by one person who tells them where to go1