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The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, Wednesday, announced the dismissal of 51 police officers for proven corrupt offences while another 56 were awarded various punishment.

However, it was all smiles among the rank and file of police as the IG also announced the promotion of over 36,000 officers of the Force to various ranks.

The IGP made the announcement in Abuja at the last strategic meeting in 2015 with senior officers of the Force.

Justifying the need for the promotion, the Police boss said: “Stagnation on a rank was identified as one of the frustrating indices that engenders corruption in the Nigeria Police and on account of this, since my appointment, I have with the consistent understanding and support of the Police Service Commission, initiated the promotion of over 35,000 rank and files who have been stagnated on their ranks for varying years across all Commands.”

While enumerating the categories who benefitted from the promotion exercise, he said: “These figures includes personnel who have consistently risked their lives and courageously confronted insurgents in the Northeast. Most of them have been considered for special promotion and in addition, over 5,184 Traffic Wardens that have remained demotivated and agitated for years due to rank stagnation have also been promoted while 995 senior officers have been promoted from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).”

Expatiating, he said: “We also gave some slot to our colleagues in the Northeast. We could not pull them out from the theatre of war, they were not on ground but we are promoting about 1400, so if you add it up, it’s about 37,000 of them and we want to promote all of them. Once their Commissioners are going back, they will go with it and it is going to be with effect from the 1st of January, 2016.”

On the recruitment of 10,000 officers as instructed by President Muhammadu Buhari earlier this year, Arase said: “For the recruitment of the 10,000 more officers, the template has already been drawn out between our training department, the Police Service Commission, Federal Character Commission. All the necessary bodies that are supposed to sit together to bring out a template have done that already and we are now thinking of putting it into the next fiscal year budget because it has to be budgeted for.”

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