The United States government and Nigeria on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on a training modernisation project for the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, INL, the Mission said in a statement.
“This MOU represents our two governments’ mutual commitment to engagement on institutional reforms at the NPF training academies,” James Entwistle, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria was quoted as saying in prepared remarks made available to journalists.
He said the collaboration between the NPF and INL on the training project is intended to add another set of instruments to the law enforcement toolkit available to the police in Nigeria.
Entwistle said the goal of the project is to provide modernisation enhancements to the NPF’s training curriculum for a well-trained police force.
Dedicated to the highest ethical standards, proficient in law enforcement, preventing and detecting crime, preserving the peace, and protecting citizens’ rights.
He explained that the training of law enforcement officers is important and should be continuous.
“We are endeavouring to better equip the NPF to carry out its duties because of the importance of the police in a democracy,” he said.
Entwistle said the police are important in a democracy because they protect the people and are those willing to respond to every crisis.
Most of the unqualified police in service should be removed 1st from top down, then new brain need be employed for better success.
ReplyDeleteThe USA does not have a police system that is comparable to what is obtained in Nigeria. There is no state police, no Local government police but every city has her own police totally independent of the state or the Federal control. How will the training be beneficial to the people. The Nigeria Law makers should first be trained of the need to let there be State police with that there would have been no Boko Haram. Then will can the have equivalent of FBI in Nigeria.
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