About five hundred thousand volunteers from across the seven hundred and seventy four local government areas of the country and the Federal Capital Territory are being arranged for the community policing programme.
This followed the proposal of the Federal Government and the thirty six state governors to recruit the N-Power volunteers for the community policing to tackle the shortage of manpower in the police.
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF and Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi had after a meeting with President Buhari, said plans are on to use N-power beneficiaries to kick-start community policing in the country.
Speaking on the community policing, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment Afolabi Imoukhuede, said they have supplied data to the NGF and the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the volunteers.
He said two batches of the N-Power programme across the seven hundred and seventy four local government areas of the country are ready for community policing.
