The Proposed Police University

THE principle behind the Federal Government’s approval of a University for the Nigeria Police is on the surface of it strong and unexceptionable, but this alone does not fully ad-dress the problems confronting the Nigeria Police Force. The Federal Executive Council (FEC), which granted the approval at its recent meeting in Abuja, predicated it on the need to transform the force in line with global standards, and to provide more professional training for the leadership cadre of the Police.
However, given the numerous problems afflicting the higher education sector in the country, government’s plan for the police has raised genuine apprehension that the proposal may achieve no more than create yet another institution of higher learning with little prospect of producing better graduates. There is also the question as to whether the university can resolve the intractable problems hampering police efficiency in the country.
The development followed the council’s approval of a draft bill for an “Act to provide for the establishment of the Nigeria Police University, Wudil, Kano,” presented by the Ministry of Police Affairs. This was sequel to government’s endorse-ment of the report of the Presidential Committee on the Re-form of the Nigeria Police Force. If the law goes through, the university will emerge from the upgrading of the Police Academy at Wudil in Kano State, into a degree-awarding in-stitution.
The Minister of Information said the upgraded academy “will afford the police personnel the opportunity to acquire higher and liberal education that will nurture, equip and pro-duce globally competitive police graduates with requisite knowledge, skills and attitude suitable for learning, scholar-ship, policing and community service.”

MY POSER;

Can this remedy the ills of The Nigerian Police ?.
Will this provoke other paramilitaries to demand there universities?
Would it turn the police from seeking National service to seeking personal degrees?.It's your pick.

A Police University is only a cosmetic approach at reforming the Force. It will achieve nothing more than paper qualifications that are already in excess supply. The Army might soon get their full fledged one as well, springing up from what is already exclusively being run in some universities for the military. A time will come when every profession, trade, vocation, etc. will have its own specialized university. Let's see if it would make us better. Time will tell.

Nice development to educate the bunch of unlearneth police force, BUT ,this is out of priority,This is not what should come first.

For a long time now there is the policy of employing graduates into the Force. They are then trained and come out as ASPs. It did not seem to change anything. One hopes that the Planners will think of almost everything this time including the drumming of patriotism in the minds of the young undergraduates that will populate the Police University. At the same time the Police Ministry/FG should intensify awareness campaign of citizens rights, and deal with anything or anybody that would mar those rights, as regards the citizens and Police or all those paid from the public chest. So doing will enbolden the citizens to resist bribe demands or looting by such servants.