The Chairman, Board of Trustees, Nigeria Police Trust Fund and former Inspector General of Police, IGP. Suleiman Abba, Psc, NPM, CFR., has listed lack of adequate funding, crime fighting equipment, training and welfare as being the limiting factors against effectiveness of the Nigeria Police Force.

 This was disclosed in a statement made available to CEOAFRICA by the NPTF Public Relations Officer (PRO), CSP Olabisi Okuwobi on Monday.

 Abba said the identified factors have been the challenges faced by the police, adding that various committees on Nigeria Police Reforms have equally identified same challenges as the factors affecting the effectiveness of the police.

He said, “That is why even the reform committees that have looked into the problems of police and ethical conditions,  summed up into four the problems of inadequate funding, the problem of inadequate manpower, the problem of lack of special care about the welfare of the police and  the quality of the recruitment and training." 

He however revealed that the Nigeria Police Trust Fund set up by President Muhammadu Buhari and saddled with the responsibilities of training and retraining of Police Personnel, Procurement of state-of-the Arts equipment for fighting crimes and improvement of Police welfare which encompasses both barracks and office accommodation would in no time review the identified factors.

While urging Police Officers nationwide to be service-oriented, he assured them of ensuring that the Fund on trust to the Board will be put to judicious use, solely to radically improve on the totality of the Nigeria Police Force.