Nigeria has over 300,000 policemen, many of whom go about their normal duty of keeping peace and securing lives and property with arms in hand. But are citizens safe around these men in black and blue? According to experts, Nigerians should be scared and justifiably so.
Yesterday (October 10, 2014), being the World Mental Health Day, makes it imperative to focus attention on the psychological health of one of the most important law enforcement units in the country – the police force.
‘Police are your friends’, a slogan which has become commonplace in Nigeria, gives an almost comical contrast to the tales many Nigerians have to tell about experience in the hands of policemen.
The Nigeria Police does not conduct any psychological or psychiatric test on men it recruits into the force,Saturday SOURCE learnt.