As the curtain draws on the police recruitment exercise on Friday May 13, most of the over 843, 000 applicants who submitted applications for the 10,000 available slots into the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) may have already failed, even without writing the recruitment test.
Indications are that many of the candidates failed because they either do not meet the age or educational requirements.Information on the recruitment portal indicated that Police Constable, Specialist and Special Duties candidates must have at least five credit passes in WAEC or its equivalent in not more than two sittings.
Indications are that many of the candidates failed because they either do not meet the age or educational requirements.Information on the recruitment portal indicated that Police Constable, Specialist and Special Duties candidates must have at least five credit passes in WAEC or its equivalent in not more than two sittings.
Cadet Inspector, Specialist and Special Duties Candidates must possess at least one of the following from a reputable polytechnic or college of education OND, NCE or their equivalents.Cadet ASP Specialist and Special Duties Candidates on the other hand are expected to posses at least B. SC.; B.A.; B. TECH.; HND. or an equivalent degree from a reputable university or polytechnic.
However, Mr. Solomon Arase, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) who disclosed this in Abuja at an event to celebrate his first anniversary as Nigeria’s police chief disclosed that most of the applicants who declared their intention for recruitment were between 30 and 34 years of age, whereas the Police service Commission (PSC) stipulated a maximum age of 28 in the application forms.
Arase who will retire in June said that such applicants were too old and as such will not make it into the Force.He also disclosed that the events that would culminate in the recruitment of successful candidates would begin next month.
“The final process is going to be next month because all those that are uploading details are about 30, 34 (years). All those ones are too old. We won’t select them.
“So, all those 700, 000 or 800, 000 (applications) you are seeing, a lot of them will be knocked out when the system meets them because when you don’t meet the age criterion, you are sorted out (applications are thrown out).
“When your academic qualification doesn’t meet up, you are sorted out (applications are thrown out).“There will be examination, but it will come out from the various states and once we know the numbers, we point them state by state and all government people will do their own.“The state will do theirs and it will come from the bottom to the top. I never knew Nigerians would like the police like this,” he said.
The IGP remarked further that training of successful candidates would be decentralised to the six geo-political zones where he said good-enough facilities are available.It could be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the recruitment of 10,000 additional policemen into the Force to reinforce the police for better service.
Of these 10,000 personnel, the PSC was recently quoted in a statement to have said that it would recruit 500 Cadet ASP, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1,500 Specialist Officers and 7, 500 Constables.
As a May 2, 2016 the PSC said it received 843,008 applications from applicants seeking enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force.
Mr Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission said that 243,327 applications were received for Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) cadre, while 197,990 and 401,691 applied for the Inspector and Police Constable (PC) cadres respectively.
The online recruitment portal was opened on April 1, 2016 and will close on May 13, 2016.
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