President Goodluck Jonathan will on Thursday inaugurate a professional Code of Conduct for the Nigeria Police Force, Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubabar, has said.
Abubakar announced this yesterday while hosting newly promoted junior officers of the force to a party at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
“On the 10th of this month, a professional code of conduct will be launched by Mr President for all officers and men of the Nigeria police for the first time in the history of the Nigeria Police. We are putting in this effort to ensure that you are guided, to ensure that our officers are respected, to ensure that Nigerians understand what we should do and what we should not do.
“We shall continue to do away with things that are not supposed to be with the police. Our ethics must be professional ethics that will be respected and obeyed,’’ he said.
The IG also announced that following the approval of the president, the police have been removed from the contributory pension schemed. He said, henceforth, the force would have its schemed manned by personnel of the police.