The Police Service Commission has announced the approval and release of a list of 10,000 successful applicants for recruitment into the constable and specialist cadres of the Nigeria Police Force.
The commission noted that to ensure fairness and justice in the recruitment process, it worked with relevant stakeholders, including the Nigeria Police Force, the National Assembly and the Federal Character Commission.
It added that it ensured equity in the spread of successful candidates across the 774 local government areas of the country.
The spokesperson for the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, made the development known in a statement on Tuesday.
Ani said, “The Police Service Commission has approved and released the list of 10,000 successful applicants for recruitment into the constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force.
“The commission today, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, received the report of the Police Recruitment Board. 9,000 applicants were approved for recruitment for general duty while 1,000 applicants were recruited for the specialist cadre.
“To ensure fairness and justice in the recruitment process, the commission worked with guidance from relevant stakeholders, including the Nigeria Police Force, the National Assembly and the Federal Character Commission.
“It ensured equity in the spread of successful candidates across the 774 local government areas of the country.”
The commission had earlier inaugurated a recruitment board – a broad-based stakeholders’ body populated by representatives from the PSC, the NPF, the Ministry of Police Affairs, the Federal Character Commission, Police Colleges and the Police Trust Fund, to superintend over the recruitment process.
Also, interested Nigerian youths were invited to apply online for consideration for the subsequent stages of the exercise, through paid advertisements in several national media.
The online application was done in six weeks, between October 15, 2023, and November 26, 2023, as the commission said a total of 609,886 applications were received, while 416,323 applicants who met the requirements were shortlisted for the second stage of the exercise.
The physical and document screening stage was held in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory between Monday, January 8, 2024 and Monday, January 29, 2024.
The commission said after the physical and credentials screening, it shortlisted 171,956 applicants for the computer-based tests conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board.
Ani noted that “15,447 general duty applicants who did well in the CBT were further invited for medical screening to determine their health status.
