The Commissioner of Police (CP) for Ekiti State, Tunde Mobayo, has hinted that the 10,000 police constables currently being recruited by the Nigeria Police across the country would be deployed in their respective local government areas.
The recruitment process has started for 10,000 new police officers to join the force with recruitment portals open for interested applicants.
The federal government has also approved the sum of about 13 billion naira for the take-off of its community policing initiative which is expected to bring crime-fighting closer to the local communities.
The project is also expected to bring security closer to the people with the involvement of community leaders and other local groups.
Mr Mobayo said the decision to post the new officers to their local government areas was informed by the belief that the personnel would have more knowledge about their terrain than people from other states.
According to him, the task of fighting crimes successfully is based on intelligence gathering, saying that it is only personnel who understand the cultural and social behaviour of communities that could succeed in modern-day policing.
The police commissioner, who spoke on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti through the police public relations officer, Sunday Abutu, said the recruitment was in response to an urgent need for more officers in the force.
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