To reiterate the aspiration of Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), to leave a reformed, professionalized, enthusiastic, and knowledge-based police force in the country, Muhammad Dingyadi, the Minister of Police Affairs, recently inaugurated a 16-man governing board for the Nigeria Police Academy, which is located in Wudil, Kano. On Friday, at the Ministry of Police Affairs Headquarters in Abuja, the governing board was officially launched. The board is made up of stakeholders from the police sector as well as academia.
Bolaji Kazeem, the ministry’s Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, disclosed this information in a statement issued on Friday night to the media. As reported by the spokesman for the ministry, the minister stated that the overarching purpose of the academy is to promote the furtherance of learning and to provide people of the Nigeria Police Force with the possibility of receiving a higher and more liberal education without reference to ethnic background, creed, gender, political beliefs, or religious persuasion.
World-class police officers will be produced by the institution.
He said that the institution embraces, trains, and develops world-class police officers with the necessary knowledge, capabilities, and dispositions suited for governance, scholarship, surveillance, and community outreach in all of the institutions and centres of the academy. In addition, the institution offers courses of education and other resources for the advancement of teaching and learning. Also, he explained that the POLAC is dedicated to encouraging and fostering academic achievement and doing research in pertinent domains of learning and human activity.
Besides preparing cadets for professions of service and achievement, they also ensure that their actions are in line with the security, societal, cultural, and socioeconomic demands of the citizens of Nigeria. He also recounted that in 1988 the academy, whose governing board was established, launched two temporary campuses: the Police Training School in Challawa, Kano, for the training of cadet inspectors, and the Police College in Kaduna, for the training of cadet assistant superintendents of police.
Two police institutions were merged together for a greater goal.
On April 2, 1996, it was officially opened to the public. Since then, the two campuses have been combined and transferred to their permanent site in Wudil, Kano. However, in September 2012, the school received accreditation to grant degrees. The minister added that the Police Academy (Establishment) Act 2021, which Buhari had recently passed into law on April 7, 2022, seeks to actualize its contents effectively. The President’s endorsement of the governing board of the Police Academy is intended to achieve this.
Furthermore, he mentioned that the governing board of the academy, which is also referred to as the Nigeria Police Academy Council among other names, is charged with the obligation of exercising control and supervising the academy’s policies, as well as its property, finances, and operations. They will promote and penalize staff members of the academy who are not police officers in accordance with the recommendations of the appropriate committees, and they will evaluate the educational and police programs that are offered by the college.
Ever since it was founded, the institution has been flourishing.
In response, Usman Baba, the Inspector-General of Police, expressed the board’s dedication to developing POLAC into a benchmark institution. Baba claims that the academy has flourished ever since it was founded and will continue to turn forth excellent police officers skilled in a wide range of disciplines. They take great pride in this institution, the only one of its kind in the globe, and they foresee that it will quickly become the kind of institution nobody will want to forego.
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The establishment of the Police Academy Governing Board is a positive move towards enhancing the professionalism and effectiveness of the Nigeria Police Force. By ensuring that the Police Academy is well managed and equipped to deliver quality training, the board will help to enhance the capabilities of police officers, which should ultimately lead to improved security and safety for all Nigerian citizens.
So far the board will be aimed at recruiting upright and honest officers, then it’s good. I just hope the Police governing board do their job judiciously.
This ia an excellent idea from the government. it is things like this that they should be looking into because our police officers have been terrible and they need reform.
This is fantastic news since it will help spread knowledge and give members of the Nigeria Police Force access to a better education.
Nigeria seriously need this type of institutions in the country so as to upgrade our security architecture and the country will really benefit alot from the institution.Police is one of the most important security agency that is very close to the citizen at all level and they suppose provide necessary security to the citizens.
I like as this is being done because this will allow more young people to be willing to join the police force and the reputation and growth of our police will skyrocket.
Training, reforming and building a formidable Nigeria Police Force that are well educated, can operate any sofisticated security gadget and more professional necessitate the inaugurated a 16-man governing board for the Nigeria Police Academy which is also the aspirations of our President.
The board creation sounds like a perfect idea. This will help to monitor the activities of police officer and also ensure that only the responsible ones are graduating and being sent out to the field to work
FG forms police academy governing board. Very wonderful at this moment that the police level is very low in standard. The Academy should be manage and co-ordinate well by the people in charge of the Academy. If this institute do well in this governing board, I believe that the level of police security will be high. And also improve the standard capacity Nigeria police
The launching of the recently inaugurated 16-man governing board for the Nigeria Police Academy is indeed the begining of a great achievement for the Nigeria Police. It will create room for improve learning and to attain professionalism in the field. It allow our police to meet up the world standard of policing.