The Inspector-General, Ibrahim Idris has announced that the Force would be recruiting 155,000 personnel in the next five years to bridge the manpower shortage.
Idris told newsmen today, Friday in Kano that 31,000 personnel would be recruited every year, for five years, adding that the force did not recruit rank and file personnel between 2011 and 2016, a development that had created “a huge gap.
“We want to meet the UN standard of one police man to 400 people; the fight against crime and criminality cannot be successful without adequate manpower.”
Idris was in Kano to condole with the family of Yusuf Maitama Sule.
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