With the widespread security problems currently plaguing the country as scarily characterised by incessant kidnappings, mindless bloodletting and genocidal massacres perpetrated by seemingly uncontrollable bandits, anarchists and assortment of delinquent bands operating across the country, there has arisen very loud calls for the immediate re-examination of the role, structure and operational utility of the country’s security architecture with a view to enhancing their effectiveness in securing the nation from the well-calibrated siege on Nigeria by these malevolent forces. Any serious effort to reverse the country’s current security deficiencies must begin with the urgent expansion of the territorial reach and overall operational effectiveness of the nation’s policing processes and that would be through the establishment of State and other localised police services systems. Today, we are once again repeating our numerous earlier pleas to the government of the federation for serious re-consideration of the lingering question of introducing State Police to the country because the present arrangement in which we rely on a single police establishment lately being heavily supplemented by the military is not working because the role of the military on internal security is not exactly the same with that of the Police because such assignments fall within the professional competence of the police.
The question now is, how is the police system structured to r.
