Misbahu Bashir
6 July 2009
Abuja — Two additional police training colleges would be established in Lafiya, Nassarawa State and Benin, Edo State, the Chairman of Police Service Commission, Parry B. Osayande has said.
Osayande disclosed this when a team of Amnesty International officials led by Kees Hindriks visited the Commission in Abuja.
He said two new colleges when established will bring to six the number of such institutions in the country. These colleges, he said, would continue to train new recruits.
He told the visitors that Nigeria with about 377,000 Police men has the largest single Police Force in the world.
He said that during the military regimes which spanned over three decades, the police force was used as agents of oppression of citizens during which the police were corrupt, brutal, exercised their powers unlawfully and sometimes engaged themselves in extra-judicial killings
He said government is providing communication facilities to the Nigeria Police Force, and also building of forensic science laboratories, barracks and offices for the police.
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