Tinubu signs into law Police Training Institutions Bill establishing 48 specialised academies nationwide

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has signed the Nigeria Police Training Institutions Establishment Bill, 2024, into law, formally establishing 48 specialised constabulary grooming academies crossed the nation.

Sponsored by Senator Ahmed Abdulhamid Malam-Madori, the landmark authorities aims to institutionalise constabulary education, beforehand continuous nonrecreational development, and align instrumentality enforcement practices with planetary standards.

The caller instrumentality categorizes the grooming institutions into 5 large types: Police Colleges, Police Training Schools, Police Tactical Schools, Police Technical Training Schools, and different specialised institutions.

These academies are strategically located crossed Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones.Key Police Colleges present legally recognised see those successful Ikeja (Lagos), Kaduna, Maiduguri (Borno), Oji River (Enugu), Jos (Plateau), and Enugu.

In the 2nd tier, Police Training Schools person been established successful locations specified arsenic Bauchi, Minna, Sokoto, Benin, Calabar, Ilorin, Ibadan, Iperu, Jos, Owerri, Nonwa- Tai, Oyin- Akoko, Ekiti, Gwaram Malabu Fufore Bende and different strategical locations, ensuring grooming reaches each levels of constabulary formations.

The Police Tactical Schools are present providing elite operational grooming which see mobile grooming centres successful Gwoza (Borno), Ila-Oragun (Osun), and Ende-Hill (Nasarawa); Counter Terrorism Unit schools successful Nonwa-Tai (Rivers) and Gombe; and the specialised extortion units successful Kafin Hausa (Jigsaw). K9 Training School (Bukuru-Jos), Mounted Troop Training School successful Jos (Plateau), Marine Training School successful Toru-Orua (Bayelsa), and the Pre-Retirement Training School successful Kudan (Kaduna).

Technical grooming schools nether the Act screen institutions specified arsenic the Police Public Relations School successful Lafia (Nasarawa) and Abuja, the Central Planning and Training Unit successful Jos, Police School of Intelligence successful Shere (Kwara), Communication Schools successful Kudan and Ikeja, School of Music, Police Driving School, and Police Veterinary Training School.

Additional specialised institutions recognised see the Police Institute of Digital Studies and Cyber Security (Abeokuta, Ogun), Police School of Nursing and Midwifery (Ezimo, Enugu), National Institute of Police Studies (Life Camp, Abuja), Police Short Service Training Institute (Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom), and Police School of Finance and Administration (Umueri, Anambra).

Senator Malam-Madori hailed the statesmanlike assent, describing it arsenic a transformative measurement toward enhancing Nigeria’s interior information framework, underlining the Act’s relation successful professionalising constabulary training, advancing information research, and modernising policing civilization to conscionable planetary standards.

Security experts person praised the caller instrumentality arsenic 1 of the astir important legislative reforms successful Nigeria’s policing history.

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