Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police, has stated that each of the 1,537 divisional police headquarters around the country requires at least four patrol vans.
The IGP, who testified before the House of Representatives on Tuesday, listed inadequate finance and manpower as two of the difficulties confronting the Nigeria Police Force.
“The police are also operating in a very difficult environment,” Mr Egbetokun said. Today’s police force is woefully understaffed”
“Even the criminals know that. The United Nations ratio of 1 to 400 is not attainable in Nigeria as of today. Because the ratio in Nigeria is one to 1,000, which suggests that we have to double the manpower”
“We have 1,537 police divisional headquarters across 774 local government areas. But getting operational vehicles for the divisions is difficult. Each of these divisions requires at least four functional patrol vehicles. But we have divisions which don’t have any patrol vehicles as of today.”
For each of the 1,537 police divisional headquarters to get four patrol vehicles, it means the police would need to acquire about 6,148 vehicles.
