Those with criminal records will not be recruited into the Nigeria Police Force. 

Thousands of applicants awaiting the Short Message Service for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force would have to checkmate themselves severally before going for the recruitment exercise. 

The Police Command in Rivers State says those with criminal records have no chance in been recruited into the force. 

DSP Nnamdi Omoni, the command’s spokesman stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Port Harcourt. 

Omoni warned those he described as hooligans to keep off the examination and interview centres for the recruitment. 

He said that those with questionable characters who might have been recruited by omission in the past would be flushed out when discovered. 

“The police have no immediate means of knowing a criminal, but if after recruitment we discover that one has a criminal record, he/she will be shown the way out. 

“Such suspects could be prosecuted accordingly. 

However, ex-militants and ex-cultist that have been granted amnesty by either the Federal or State Governments and have repented genuinely could be recruited,’’ he said. 

Source: Daily Post