Hundreds of additional policemen will be needed to implement and sustain the new eight-hour shift work ordered by acting Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, according to ex-police chiefs Solo
mon Arase, Adedayo Adeoye and Emmanuel Ojukwu.
The IG said the development was informed by the need to address “a major, age-long occupational stress which long hours of duty engenders among officers and which occasions depression and abuse of power and other unprofessional conduct”.But Arase, a former IG), said the new shift work arrangement might need additional manpower to succeed, adding that about 300,000 officers might have to be recruited for the eight-hour shift.
Arase added, “They could push them into operations. He can take them to areas of need. That could be an interim arrangement.” Also, Ojukwu, a retired Commissioner of Police, said research had shown that many officers were stressed from working for 12 hours. The DPO, who is a Chief Superintendent of Police, said although the eight-hour duty was the ideal period recognised in the police regulatory scheme, the situation on the ground had made its applicability difficult.
On the security implications the IG’s directive would have if it was implemented, the DPO said criminals would be more daring. An aide to the IG, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the directive was good but it would be difficult to implement it.
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