PSC Approves Salary Payment For 2021/2022 Police Recruits Six Months After Posting
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved salary payments for the 2021/2022 police recruits after they passed out of Police Colleges and informal police work.
PSC Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani said this in a statement in Abuja on on Sunday.
He said the affected recruits, serving in various police Command and Formations, had been in service for the past six months without salary.
Ani said the approval for the salary payment was in the interest of national security, anchored on the need to amicably resolve the lingering issues of recruitment between PSC and the Nigeria Police Force.
The PSC spokesman said the issue had occasioned untold hardship on the Police Constables.
He said the decision was also, in response to outcry and appeals from Nigerians that the 2021/2022 police recruits were yet to be enrolled into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
“The complaint is that, the batch of recruits have not received salaries, six months after passing out from the Police Colleges and duly posted to Police Commands and formations for active Police work.
“The outcry is to ensure that the recruits are not made victims of the face off between the Commission and the Nigeria Police Force,” he said.
Ani said the Commission had conveyed its approval for the enrollment of 1007 recruited police personnel in the 2021/2022 batch into the IPPIS payment platform to the Accountant General of the Federation.
The commission and the Nigeria Police Force have been bickering over whose responsibility
The Commission is currently headed by the former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase who was appointed Chairman in January 2023 by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Arase also served as the 18th Inspector-General of Nigerian Police after Suleiman Abba was sacked.
On assumption of office, he received the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, who paid a historic courtesy visit to the Chairman of the PSC.
The IGP, who led his management team to congratulate the PSC Chair on his appointment and subsequent swearing-in, assured him of the NPF’s full cooperation to achieve an enviable policing system.
The Commission and the Police Force leaderships pledged to amicably resolve the rivalry between the Force and Commission over who has powers to recruit police constables into the Police Force.
Trouble started in recent times when an advertisements by the PSC calling on interested applicants for recruitment of police constables went viral.
But in a swift reaction, the NPF issued a counter statement informing the public that the exercise was false, adding that it had not commenced any recruitment into the Force contrary to a publication by the PSC.
Following the NPF’s reaction, the spokesman of the PSC confirmed that they had differences with the police with regards to the 2021/2022 recruitment exercise. Read more
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