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Abstract
Currently, Nigeria’s security sector needs effective policing considering the spate of insecurity and frustrated relationship between the citizens and the police. Consequently, some officers are seen as dishonest and agents of complicity. Unlike most parts of the world where the people love, support the police, Nigeria still records threats to police-public relations owing to the attitudes of some officers who tarnish the image of the security agency through uncivilised, inhuman and unlawful acts while on duty and beyond. With qualitative data, this paper explores how training and people-oriented security education can enhance effective policing for a more secure Nigeria. This paper argues that police effectiveness should no longer be hinged only on equipping officers for counter-terrorism or establishment of special units to eradicate organised crime, but also on training them on weekly/monthly basis to respond to rapidly emerging threats to national security and trainings on enhancing collaborative police-public relations.
Highlights
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has identified lack of training to help the police adapt or effectively implement new strategies as one of the challenges of policing
This paper argues that police effectiveness should no longer be hinged only on equipping officers for counter-terrorism or establishment of special units to eradicate organised crime, and on training them on weekly/monthly basis to respond to rapidly emerging threats to national security and trainings on enhancing collaborative police-public relations
Security education will prove vital to ensure that police officers respect and promote human rights, curb rascality and impunity as well as promote healthy and peaceful living among men and officers of the Nigeria police force
Summary
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has identified lack of training to help the police adapt or effectively implement new strategies as one of the challenges of policing. The following policing challenges, as identified by UNODC (2013), affect Nigerian police: order maintained by informal local structures, resource-based conflicts, illegal provision of basic urban services, high levels of deprivation and tension between the wealthy and the poor, being targets of political violence and terrorism These have complicated police efforts in maintaining law and order despite investigation efforts, street patrols, and arrest of suspects aimed at controlling crime. As asserted by Oshodi (2011), the police have had the problem of sub-standard recruitment and training processes; developing a training manual for potential and actual members of the police is a way forward, and emphasising on ethical guidelines in the task of policing It is, worrisome that after receiving training on the professionalism required in policing, some officers are implicated in the violation of human rights through indiscriminate use of lethal force with arms that are meant for criminals as last resort especially when they pose threat to society. The data were got through media reports, IFRA-Nigeria press files, Nigeria Watch database, and other secondary sources
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