A former Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, has called on the federal government to recruit more policemen into the Nigerian Police Force, in order to put an end to the challenges of insecurity that has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigeria.
“The issue is that the police is overstretched, they are operating at a very low level compared to the population of this country. Within a period of time, if we can increase the population of the police to tackle the insecurity challenges, that will assist a lot. “A lot still needs to be done to improve the strength of the police, for them to be able to adequately tackle the crime in the country,” he said.Idris, who opposed the idea of state policing and other regional security outfits, said they will only create more problems of tackling the existing insecurity issues, saying it would be better to address the issue of the inadequacy of the police compared to number of personnel.