The Nigeria Police Force says it will soon embark on re-invention and renovation of police colleges in Lagos, Kaduna, Maiduguri, and Enugu States.

It says the four premier police colleges had a special place in the history of Nigeria and deserved serious intervention to upgrade their structural facilities to ensure a good environmental ambiance befitting their status.

According to the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of training and development, Frank Mba, what the Force is trying to do is to embark on a massive re-invention and renovation of the schools.

Mba states that after the renovations and rehabilitations, the colleges will not only be fit to train police personnel in Nigeria, but in other countries as well.

According to him, the Police hope that moving forward, by the time they are done with repositioning the training schools, they will be able not only to train personnel effectively but also be able to train members of the other law enforcement agencies and even police officers from other countries outside Nigeria.

MBA said this at the Police College in Oji River, Enugu State, during his continued tour of the police formations in Nigeria.

Speaking about the Police College at Oji River, Mba said the force would fix the perimeter fencing, the access roads and other aspects of the college.

He also said particular attention would be paid to the clinic in the college so it would not only serve the school alone but the host community as well.

Mba who was accompanied on the tour by the Executive Secretary, Police Trust Fund, Mohammed Sheidu, said with commitment of the Executive Secretary, police and Nigerians would soon witness significant changes at the Police Detective College that would make them proud.

He said the inspection of the facility was the first step towards ensuring the turnaround of the decay in the College over the years before the introduction of the Police Tust Fund Intervention Project which began in 2021.

We are happy to be here because this is the first step towards the big things, the positive things that are going to be happening here at the Police Detective College.

This College has been the premier detective college in Nigeria, not just in Nigeria but some parts of West African countries. This school has a history of training other police detectives from the armed forces and law enforcement agencies in Nigeria and it is that lost glory that we intend to restore.

So, our mission today is to have a holistic inspection of the school, and in line with the Renewed Hope initiative of the President and the mission and the vision of the IGP, Kayode Egbetokon, to work with the agency that is statutorily charged with making this kind of positive intervention which is the Police Trust Fund.

Our mission is also to see how we can fix all the challenges within the school and bring it at par with the international level and make this school the pride of the police and Africa,” he said.

Positive about the ability of Sheidu to perform as the Police Trust Fund boss, Mba said soon Nigerians will see changes in the premier Police institution.

We are more positive than ever before that this time around, the country will see changes and police officers will have reason to be proud of the agency they belong to and Nigerians will at the end of the day feel the multiplier effect of the changes that will happen at the College.”

The Executive Secretary, Sheidu, said the intervention of the Trust Fund would increase and help the structures at the College with the aim of upgrading the living condition of the personnel.

He said the upgrade would significantly reposition the institutions, which had suffered neglect and deterioration in terms of basic infrastructure and equipment.

Sheidu stated that the intervention was part of the commitment of the government to equip the Nigeria Police and improve the welfare of personnel to ensure they protect and serve Nigerians effectively.

He noted that the Police College, Oji River and the Police Detective College, Enugu had played critical roles in producing some of the finest officers in the Nigeria Police and needed to be restored to their old glories.