The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba has approved the promotion of 21,039 junior police officers who were last promoted on or before 2017.
The spokesman of the Force Headquarters, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said today, April 14 in a statement, that those promoted are made up of 20,572 Sergeants to the next rank of Inspector, 324 Corporals to Sergeants, and 143 Constables to the rank of Corporal.
According to the statement, the promotion is part of the ongoing efforts aimed at improving welfare, conditions of service, boosting the morale of personnel, with a view to repositioning the Force for greater efficiency.
It stressed that it is also part of the manpower development drive to ensure that deserving personnel are promoted accordingly, to encourage hard work and further embed the culture of merit, excellence, and dedication to duties.
The police boss was quoted as assuring senior police officers that the Force high command is liaising with the Police Service Commission on the release of their promotion, which is expected to be approved and released as soon as possible.
The IGP commended the newly promoted officers for their resilience and invaluable commitment to duties and charged them to see their promotion as a call for renewed zeal, vigour, patriotism to duty, and further re-dedication to professional policing standards.
The IGP restated the commitment of his administration to entrenching longstanding reforms in the Nigeria Police Force.
