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Community Policing: FG Constables Won’t Get Salary, It’s Voluntary – Police

The police on Monday said the community policing service would be purely voluntary and the constables to be recruited would not receive any salary.

The state commissioners of police, who stated this in separate interviews on Monday, said police commands had started meeting traditional rulers and community leaders with a view to recruiting constables for the community policing initiative.

The Federal Government had on January 23 directed the police hierarchy to commence the recruitment of special constables nationwide preparatory to the implementation of its community policing policy.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in a wireless message directed state police commands to set up screening committees for the recruitment of community policing constables.

The IG ordered all state commissioners of police, assistant commissioners of police and divisional police officers to liaise with traditional rulers and community leaders in their domains to screen volunteers who would be engaged after passing the screening tests.

The Federal Government plan came on the heels of the South-West states’ launching of a security outfit, Operation Amotekun, to address incessant killings and kidnapping in the zone.

As part of the moves to recruit community policing constables, the Ekiti State Police Command on Sunday said it had sent recruitment forms to all police stations in all the local government areas of the state. According to the command, applicants must be between the ages of 21 and 50.

 

 

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