The Police Service Commission (PSC), said in Abuja on Thursday that Nigeria Police lost 12,000 officers between 2013 to date due to death, dismissal, desertion and or retirement.
The Chairman of the commission, Mr Mike Okiro, who made this known to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said in spite of this, there had not been recruitment into the force in the period.
“In the last two years, the police lost 12,000 personnel as at the last count’’, he said.
He contended that internal security would be adversely affected by 2016 if there was no recruitment into the police.
He contended that internal security would be adversely affected by 2016 if there was no recruitment into the police.
“By this time next year, if we don’t recruit, the possibility of police providing adequate internal security will be called to question’’, he said.
Okiro said that on assumption of office as chairman of the commission, his request to government to recruit men into the force was turned down.
Okiro warned that if no recruitment was carried out in the next six months or one year, all constables would have been promoted to the rank of corporal.
The chairman said that police training schools across the country were in dilapidated state due to inactivity. (NAN)
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