The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase, has declared that what the nation needs now are mentally mobile policemen with fertile minds and who can relate with the public.
Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations, in a statement said Arase stated this in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Martriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, and the management team of the agency
According to the statement, he discussed the needed conditions for the examination body to conduct the computer-based tests for the Constable applicants.
Arase noted that the Nigeria Police Force he joined 42 years ago was knowledge-based with officers who could relate with the public and engender love and confidence.
He told Oloyede that there is need for a paradigm shift in the recruitment of Nigerian youths into the force, adding that if the Commission can get 50 per cent high flyers with this recruitment, the progression to a better and effective police service would have started.
He added that mentally mobile policemen will have self confidence and capable of discharging their duties credibly.
He announced that going forward, the JAMB computer-based tests will be done first before the screening exercises so that those with questionable certificates will be weeded.
Reaponding, the JAMB Register eulogised the PSC Chairman on his track record of leadership accomplishments and noted that he is happy to associate with him and the project of giving Nigeria brand new and qualitative police officers who will serve the nation with dignity.
He advised that the recruitment exercise should take note of the peculiarities of Nigeria’s diverse population and get the best for every state and zone.