Nigerians seeking to
join the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, must possess a minimum of Ordinary
National Diploma, OND, if a new law being proposed to reposition the
force and strengthen policing in the country sails through.
Already, the bill, which will seek to repeal the law establishing the
Police Service Commission and establish a new one, is being fine-tuned
at several levels by the Federal Government.
Under the proposal, which Vanguard sighted last night, the requirement
for ordinary national diploma would apply to those seeking to join the
NPF as constables and others seeking to enlist in the Nigeria Police
Academy as cadets.
Similarly, the proposed legislation also seeks to expand the membership
of the Police Service Commission, PSC, to accommodate representatives
from the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, the Independent Corrupt Practices
Commission, ICPC, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, and Civil
Society Organizations, CSOs.
Additionally, the impending law stipulates that the PSC board must
accommodate a Nigerian youth not below the age of 35, a woman with
interest in sexual harassment and gender-based violence and a retired
police officer not below the rank of a police commissioner.
The bill also stipulates that unlike the existing law, chairman of the
PSC should be a serving police officer not above the age of 55 at the
time of appointment and not a card-carrying member of any political
party, while the board should also include a retired judge of either the
Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal.
But the proposal makes an elaborate plan to curtail the excesses of
police officers and men by stating that all erring NPF officers must be
promptly investigated and punished over reported cases of brutality and
ab
uses against Nigerians.
Vanguard gathered that unlike the current PSC law, which gives no time
frame for investigating and concluding complaints lodged by Nigerians
against offending police officers, the new planned legislation
stipulates a maximum period
of six months to probe and sanction all erring police officers and men.
But to successfully investigate and punish all erring police officers
and men, the new law demands that adequate steps must be taken to
document the names, ranks, number of erring police officers and the
police stations, dates and times where the offending police men and
officers committed the offenses.
The new legislation also plans to make policemen’s salaries and
emoluments to be very attractive so as to attract the best hands into
the force and eliminate indolent and criminally-minded elements from the
system.
It was gathered last night that a multi-level stakeholders conversation
that would include officials from the three tiers of the government
would take place this week to consider the proposed legislation, which
is being spearheaded by one of the arms of the federal government.
The proposal is geared at repositioning the police in the wake of the
recent nationwide #ENDSARS protests.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/new-police-law-sets-ond-as-entry-qualification/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Nigerians seeking to
join the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, must possess a minimum of Ordinary
National Diploma, OND, if a new law being proposed to reposition the
force and strengthen policing in the country sails through.
Already, the bill, which will seek to repeal the law establishing the
Police Service Commission and establish a new one, is being fine-tuned
at several levels by the Federal Government.
Under the proposal, which Vanguard sighted last night, the requirement
for ordinary national diploma would apply to those seeking to join the
NPF as constables and others seeking to enlist in the Nigeria Police
Academy as cadets.
Similarly, the proposed legislation also seeks to expand the membership
of the Police Service Commission, PSC, to accommodate representatives
from the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, the Independent Corrupt Practices
Commission, ICPC, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, and Civil
Society Organizations, CSOs.
Additionally, the impending law stipulates that the PSC board must
accommodate a Nigerian youth not below the age of 35, a woman with
interest in sexual harassment and gender-based violence and a retired
police officer not below the rank of a police commissioner.
The bill also stipulates that unlike the existing law, chairman of the
PSC should be a serving police officer not above the age of 55 at the
time of appointment and not a card-carrying member of any political
party, while the board should also include a retired judge of either the
Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal.
But the proposal makes an elaborate plan to curtail the excesses of
police officers and men by stating that all erring NPF officers must be
promptly investigated and punished over reported cases of brutality and
ab
uses against Nigerians.
Vanguard gathered that unlike the current PSC law, which gives no time
frame for investigating and concluding complaints lodged by Nigerians
against offending police officers, the new planned legislation
stipulates a maximum period
of six months to probe and sanction all erring police officers and men.
But to successfully investigate and punish all erring police officers
and men, the new law demands that adequate steps must be taken to
document the names, ranks, number of erring police officers and the
police stations, dates and times where the offending police men and
officers committed the offenses.
The new legislation also plans to make policemen’s salaries and
emoluments to be very attractive so as to attract the best hands into
the force and eliminate indolent and criminally-minded elements from the
system.
It was gathered last night that a multi-level stakeholders conversation
that would include officials from the three tiers of the government
would take place this week to consider the proposed legislation, which
is being spearheaded by one of the arms of the federal government.
The proposal is geared at repositioning the police in the wake of the
recent nationwide #ENDSARS protests.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/new-police-law-sets-ond-as-entry-qualification/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/new-police-law-sets-ond-as-entry-qualification/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Daga yanzu yan Najeriya da ke son shiga aikin dan sanda dole ne su sami matakin karatu na Diploma kafin su shiga dansanda a matsayin Kurtu idan sabuwar dokar aikin dansanda ya sami karbuwa kuma ya fara aiki a Najeriya. Sabuwar dokar da ake zawarci zai sake fasalin hukumar yansanda ya kuma maye gurbinsa da sabo kamar yadda Jaridar Vanguard ta labarta.
Kazalika Jaridar Vanguaed ta ruwaito cewa, dokar za ta ga yiwuwar jawo wasu bangarorin Gwamnati da kungiyoyi kamar kungiyar Lauyoyi na Najeriya, NBA, ICPC, NHRC, CSO's da sauransu an shigo da su cikin tsarin sabowar hukumar kula da aikin yansanda.
Kazalika za a jawo matasa da basu gaza shekara 35 ba, da mata da ke karadin ganin an yi adalci ga mata da aka yi wa fyade da sauran cin zarafi ga mata.
Dokar ta kuma yi tanadin rashin sassauci ko kumbiya kumbiya ga duk jami'ain dansanda da ya ci zarafin dan Najeriya, ko aikata dabi'u da suka saba dokar aikin dansanda.
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