The present administration in the Nigeria Police Force has commenced the process of implementing the Community Policing initiative.

To this end, the administration led by Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, saaid forty thousand Community Policing Officers would be engaged in the interim to serve as special constables.

Adamu said this at the monthly conference with senior police officers in Abuja, saying the Community Policing Officers would be recruited from within the communities where the prospective applicants reside and an average of fifty Community Policing Officers were to be engaged in each of the seven hundred and seventy-four Local Government Areas.

According to him, in addition, one thousand three hundred Community Policing Officers would be drawn from professional bodies like the academics, road transport unions, artisans and traders’ associations, religious bodies, women unions, and youth organisations, among others, to ensure diverse representation.

He emphasised that the Community Policing Officers would be deployed to complement the police in law enforcement functions within their localities by performing low-risk and non-sensitive duties.