onye ego: Tired of bad news.
#shuts down all source of information, Returns to stone age

Billyonaire: In sincerity, there is no time I see a policeman with a gun without my heart skipping a beat. I naturally feel the gun is too heavy for them to carry that it might just go off and accidentally discharge.

home alone: I tire for niaja oh, one week one calamity. God save us in dis country .

kawkab: None of us here is addressing the main issues;

The first thing to ask is what are the quality of persons recruited into the police force. When you recruit the wrong person this is the results that you get.

What kind of training do we give our Policemen. Are they trained on proper rules of engagements, handling civil unrest, the limit of force/reasonably force etc. When they are not trained in these they would obviously not function well. In Nigeria a man in uniform thinks he is superior to the one in mufti same for soldiers and other security agencies. Money meant for refresher courses for men of the Nigerian Police is always misappropriated by the the upper echelon of the force. so some of these men can go for years without attending any training/refresher course.

The Police is a product of the Nigeria society; it just reflects a subset of the society. As it stands nothing is working and as such we should not expect anything good as it stands now from the Police.

The Police themselves has no internal monitoring and regulatory framework. in the US, there is the Internal Affairs unit which are plain cloths Policemen that try to monitor and Police the affairs of the Policemen themselves.

How well motivated are our police force; some of the these officer have stayed in a single position for so many years. Just last week I met a police corporal that have remained a Corporal for 8 years. How much are they paid. They buy their own uniform, buy their own shoes and the don't even see a future for themselves in the force only frustration.

More frustrating is the fact that any kind of person can find his way into the police force. when you have people of questionable character, people of unstable mind, frustrated persons and all sorts then what do you expect. Sometimes the civilian population contributes to this. When you have a brother that you know is stubborn and off dubious character, sometimes, the family raises money and give the necessary bribe for him/her to join the Police. when he get there what do you expect.

The above does not take away the fact that there are still decent men in the Nigerian Police.

vislabraye: You can imagine what would happen if there's state police.