To this end, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP MOHAMMED ADAMU ordered all state Commissioners of Police, Assistant Commissioners of Police and Divisional Police Officers to liaise with traditional rulers and community leaders in their domains to screen volunteers who would be engaged after passing the screening tests.
The plan includes recruiting at least fifty volunteers from each of the seven hundred and seventy-four local government areas in the country.
The message from the IG message added that all those to be recommended must be resident in their respective communities and must also be between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-one with the willingness to serve the community.
The Police Boss said the special constables, who would not be armed, and are expected to handle charge room and administrative duties, crowd control, accident scene duties, alternative dispute resolution and other less sensitive and less risky functions.
