PSC chairman Argungu lists qualities of police officers Nigeria needs

…“A Police Officer Must Understand the Law, Police Orders, Instructions, Courtesy, and Impartiality”

By Kingsley Omonobi

ABUJA – The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police Hashimu Argungu, has outlined the cardinal qualities required of officers successful today’s Nigeria, stressing that instrumentality enforcement unit indispensable person a dependable knowing of the law, constabulary orders, and instructions, portion besides embodying efficiency, courtesy, tact, integrity, and impartiality.

Argungu made this known portion addressing participants astatine a high-level store successful Abuja, organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), improvement partners, and the governments of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States. The store focuses connected “Ethics, Mental Health and the Future of Policing and Security successful Nigeria” with the taxable “Command Leadership for Ethical and Trauma-Informed Security Response.”

He noted that emerging threats to policing successful Nigeria are nary longer driven solely by accepted factors specified arsenic unemployment, poverty, and out-of-school children, but progressively by integer and societal dynamics.

Argungu underscored the value of morals training, describing it arsenic the instauration of nonrecreational conduct. “Ethics grooming volition assistance constabulary departments recognise their afloat potential, arsenic officers usage important discretion successful enforcing the instrumentality astatine the due clip and place,” helium said.

On recruitment, the PSC Chairman highlighted the value of aesculapian fittingness for candidates, stressing that wellness examinations indispensable surface for deformities, code impediments, jaw oregon dental malfunctions, level feet, bent limbs, defective eyesight, amputations, and different conditions that could hinder effectual performance.

He besides drew attraction to the interaction of accent connected policing, linking it to operational factors specified arsenic trauma and unsafe incidents, organisational issues similar mediocre enactment and inadequate staffing, arsenic good arsenic idiosyncratic and outer stressors including fiscal hardship and household pressures. These, helium warned, could effect successful burnout, depression, substance misuse, oregon adjacent suicide.

Looking ahead, Argungu identified societal media and integer platforms arsenic emerging threats, with imaginable for misuse successful spreading propaganda oregon mobilising hooligans for destabilising activities. He stressed the request for constabulary officers to beryllium trained successful recognising cybercrime and knowing however exertion affects businesses and regular beingness successful the 21st century.

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