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Government adopts plan to beef up police force

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    Nigeria’s government has adopted a five-year plan to restructure the police force to ensure its effective presence throughout the country, Radio Nigeria reported on Monday. It quoted Doyin Okupe, special assistant on media and publicity to the president, as saying that the plan involves recruiting 25,000 persons to the police annually over the next five years. The target is a ratio of 1 police officer to 600 citizens, the radio said.

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