Poor Funding Affecting Police Performance - IG.

AGENCY REPORT.

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has said that inadequate funding was hampering the effective performance of the force.
``The Nigerian police should be well funded, trained and equipped to enable it effectively constitute the first line of defence in matters of internal security,’’ Abubakar stated in Jos on Friday.
Abubakar spoke in a lecture at the on-going defence and security studies seminar for Course 34 participants of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos.
In a paper titled: ``Resource diversification and utilisation in the Nigerian police force for the maintenance of order and public security in the 21^st century’’, he also blamed the bad eggs in the force on ``bad family upbringing’’.
 ``Most parents contribute to the problem of corruption by not giving their children the proper moral upbringing.
 ``This situation is not even limited to the police force; it is every where including the military where there is high level of discipline and professionalism.’’
 Abubakar said the police force had the primary role of arrest, intelligence, detention and prosecution, but explained that full efficacy in such statutory functions was only possible with adequate funding.
He also lamented the poor state of police vehicles and structures, saying that the situation had often slowed down the force. (NAN)