Over 700,000 Nigerians Apply For 10,000 Available Vacancies in Police

The Police Service Commission has confirmed that 705,352 applications have been received from applicants seeking to enlist into the Nigeria Police Force.
A statement issued by the Head of Press and Public Relations of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani, said that 202,427 applications applied for the position of Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, 169,446, for the position of Cadet Inspectors  and 333,479 for the position of Constables.
The statement said that the commission would recruit 500 Cadet ASPs, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1,500 Specialist Officers and 7,500 Constables to meet the approved 10,000 new entrants into the Force.
In the statement, the Chairman of the commission, Mike Okiro, confirmed that the process of receiving the forms had been smooth and transparent.
Okiro assured Nigerians of the commitment of the commission to making the process transparent and the exercise a huge success.
It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the recruitment of 10,000 policemen into the nation’s Police Force to reinforce the Police for better service. [myad]