Vice President Yemi Osinbajo speaks on the Police force that is a representative of the people

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that everywhere in the world, a police force is a representative of the people and the government such that there is a need to give it an ethos that will be admired by all.?
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Prof. Osinbajo said this when he received, on behalf of the President, the Annual Report of the Police Service Commission (PSC), from the Acting Chairman, Justice Clara Ogunbiyi (rtd) who led a delegation of the Commission’s management team to the Presidential Villa yesterday.?
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The PSC presents an Annual Report in accordance with Section 17 of the Police Service Commission (Establishment) Act 2001. According to a release by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, the VP stated that the Police Force is “in many ways, the first line of civil authority and in any country, it is a representative of the people.?
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While commending the commission for their clarity of vision, hard work and the difficult task of managing a huge police force with several challenges, Osinbajo emphasized that the “ethos of the police force is something we have to take seriously.”?
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Referencing parts of the report, Prof Osinbajo noted the issue of the internal investigation of the police when things go wrong. In addition, he pointed out the matter of legal services provided within the police force and stated that there’s no reason there shouldn’t be robust legal services for the police, not just to prevent random claims that people make, but also to be ready to compensate when there are legitimate cases against the police that the courts find.?
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