Akpabio seeks reward system for outstanding police officers

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has called for instauration of a reward strategy for outstanding constabulary officers successful Nigeria to beforehand professionalism.

Speaking during the Police Service Commission Board Induction/Strategic Management league successful Ikot Ekpene connected Monday, Akpabio who was represented by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, added that the National Assembly is acceptable to springiness the indispensable legislative backing for the reappraisal of outdated laws.

He said Nigeria indispensable statesman to institutionalize merit, subject and integrity implicit mediocrity, favoritism, and impunity, noting that reforms successful the constabulary requires courageousness that would disrupt the presumption quo.

He urged the PSC to follow policies that would marque the constabulary protectors alternatively of predators, and present justness alternatively of judgment, and called for the adaptation of assemblage policing models that stress empathy, struggle resolution, and vicinity engagement similar Japan and Finland.

“Reform requires courageous disruption. In Singapore, constabulary translation was anchored connected stringent recruitment standards, transparency successful promotions, and fierce accountability.

“In Nigeria, we indispensable statesman to institutionalize merit implicit mediocrity, subject implicit favoritism, and integrity implicit impunity.

“On show optimization, it is clip to present a reward strategy that recognizes and uplifts those officers who embody the finest ideals of nationalist service.

“The policeman who refuses a bribe whitethorn instrumentality location empty-handed today, but helium indispensable not instrumentality without hope—hope that successful the end, integrity shall output a reward acold greater than the fleeting spoils of corruption. We indispensable elevate the civilization of commendation supra the civilization of condemnation.

“Let america make Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), integrate exertion into mundane policing, and guarantee that our officers are trained not conscionable to subdue but to serve. Let information thrust deployment, fto quality thrust action, and fto results find reward.

“We admit that nary betterment volition endure without legislative partnership. The National Assembly stands acceptable to reappraisal outdated laws, o.k. indispensable reforms, and supply the robust oversight needed to guarantee a professional, people-oriented constabulary system,” helium stated.

Acknowledging that backing deficits, outdated grooming models, debased morale, corruption nationalist distrust were immoderate of the challenges of the Nigerian Police, the Senate President urged the PSC committee to permission a bequest for the system, amended than what they met.

He stated that their assignment was a telephone to purpose, a mandate to reform, and a ineffable spot to serve, adding that the constabulary unit indispensable not beryllium seen arsenic an limb of coercion, but an motor of trust, justice, and nationalist service.