The Federal government cannot continue to relegate the Nigeria Police Force and expect maximum performance.
This is according to a former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Dennis Amachree.
In his words, the morale of the policemen is low because they are not well taken care of.
According to him, a police officer who has to buy his uniform becomes a problem when he gets into the street.
Amachree says the police had been neglected for too long.
He says the country is under-policed with about four hundred thousand policemen saddled with the responsibility of enforcing the law and ensuring the safety, and protections of about two hundred million citizens.

Amachree, a former chairman of the Nigeria Chapter of American Society for Industrial Security, ASIS International, was of the opinion that the manpower of the police should be increased.
He also inferred that policing must be brought down to the grassroots where citizens can adequately participate to lessen the burden police officers are left to shoulder alone.