The Police Service Commission (PSC), said in Abuja on Tuesday that it received 796, 152 applications for enlistment into the Nigerian Police Force, and how it will select only 10,000 out of it.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday, Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the Police Service Commission (PSC), has disclosed that the commission received 796, 152 applications for enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force.
Ani who said that the recruitment site had been running effectively after initial hitches, added that the commission does not anticipate any crowd as successful applicants would be invited batch by batch after collation of the names, and that they would be communicated through their e-mail addresses.
The spokesman said there would be no room for compromise as selection and collation would be done electronically, adding that there was nothing to worry about the increasing number of applicants as the selection process would be strictly followed.
He also revealed that 229, 817 applications were received for Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) cadre, while 188,315 and 378,315 applicants applied for the Inspector and Police Constable (PC) cadres respectively.
It can be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the recruitment of 10,000 policemen into the nation’s Police Force to reinforce the police for better service, and the commission recently said in a statement that it would recruit 500 Cadet ASPs, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1,500 Specialist Officers and 7, 500 Constables in the recruitment of 10,000 policemen.