Fixing the police problem
The Nigerian Police Force is hopelessly corrupt. The corruption starts at the bottom and it goes all the way to the top. The few good policemen do have a chance against the army of corruption facing them. I propose a solution.
Reforming the federal police force
The first priority of the nigerian policemen should be to get rid of all bad eggs. Once the good cops are left, the force will work properly. My suggestion is to make a group within the police force called “Police Officer” (as opposed to the old “Policeman”. These officers earn at least N150k/month. Every policeman has a chance to be a officer. However, to become an officer, you need to have a clean record of no bribery and you need to be recommended by at least 50 citizens.
All policemen are required to wear their names and badgenumbers on their shirts. Any policeman without this information is regarded by law as not being a law-enforcemnet officer, and his commands can be disregarded.
The federal government sets up a mobile platform, where you can enter the name and number of any policeman, either as a commendation or recording something he did wrong. Every citizen enters the names of the policemen in there as they observe them going about their duty. All policemen taking bribes appear there and will never become “Officers”. The clean policemen become officers. Any policeman who has more than 30 “negative” ratings in a year gets put under investigation.
Any policeman who is unable to make “officer” level within 2 years is demoted out of the public facing police force and is put in charge of Prisons. (I will elaborate on my prison scheme in a future posting).
Creating the State Police
In addition to federal police, a new State Police will be created. However, these State Police are not the normal police force, but are called State Detectives. The purpose of these detectives is simply to gather evidence against people living within their state, and then submit this evidence to the federal police force or the courts for prosecution.
These state police are not allowed to interrogate or arrest people, unless they go with federal police that exceed their number.
All vigilante groups would be merged into the state police. The heads of the state police would be voted by community elders and other traditional institution once every year.
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