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From Tony Osauzo, Benin
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, yesterday, admonished police officers to be committed to excellent service delivery in the discharge of their duties.
The IGP who gave the advice while addressing policemen of the Edo State Command in Benin City, said the aims of the Federal Government and Police administration is to have a police force that will be well positioned to respond to the dynamics of crimes and criminalities in the societies
Besides, Egbetokun who is on a two- day working visit to the state, disclosed that efforts are on to improve the welfare of policemen in the country.
“The Federal Government is committed to improve police welfare and we are also doing our best to ensure that policemen have improved welfare.
“Recently, we launched the police housing scheme. The intention of having a police housing scheme is to provide affordable houses to all police officers across the ranks.
“With what we have in place and what we are putting together, houses would be affordable for all police officers such that you can’t not serve the police for 35 years, retire and not have a home.
“That is what we are working on and we are getting support from the federal government. This is to show to you that the government and the police administration are committed to improving welfare for all police officers”, the IGP said, just as he announced that the police high command is working very hard on improved pension earnings for retired officers of the Force.
“We also have various insurance schemes for the police officers. We have four categories of insurance schemes for police officers.
“We have the group life assurance scheme, the group personal accident scheme, IGP Family welfare scheme and the Nigeria Police welfare insurance scheme. All these are for the benefits of Police officers”, he added.
Egbetokun announced that Nigeria Police was rated recently as the most improved agency in anti corruption in Nigeria, noting that it would not have been possible if the officers have not keyed into the new policing vision of emplacing a professionally competent, service-driven, rule of law compliance and people-friendly police force.
Nevertheless, he advised men and officers of the command to be transparent and honest in their actions with members of the public, saying “Do the best you can, serve the people to the best of your ability and show commitment to the highest standard of integrity and public trust.
“The best job in the world is the job of a policeman. It is a job you do and people will pray for you. It is also a job you do and people will give you the opposite of prayer. So, it is you the policemen who will decide which one you want”.
Earlier in his speech, the state Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, had informed the IGP that the state command has recorded many achievements especially in the area of bursting high profile criminals and policing in Edo.
The commissioning of the newly built ultra modern Benin Area Command Headquarters located at Upper Sakponba Road in Benin, climaxed activities of Ithe IGP’s visit.
