EVALUATION OF THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION

STRATEGIES EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE

NIGERIA POLICE FORCE

BY

OGECHI NDUKWU
2008453074

IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENTS

FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE
(B.Sc) IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

FACAULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, NNAMDI

AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA.

JANUARY, 2015
Abstract:

This deductive study was based on data gathered from

seventy-two Police officers from Imo state Police Command in
the year 2014. The study sought to evaluate the extent to
which the performance of the personnel was related to the
selection requirement of the service. The results indicated that
there was a positive relationship between the selection
requirements and the job performance for effective productivity
of the personnel during the five-year period spanning 20092014. It was revealed from the study that the Nigeria Police
Force used to be called the Hausa Constabulary. In April 1861,
the British Consul in Lagos obtained permission from his
principal in London to establish a Consular Guard comprising of
30 men. Two years later in 1863, this small body of men
became known as the "Hausa Guard". It was further regularized
in 1879 by an Ordinance creating a Constabulary for the Colony
of Lagos. The main aim of the police force was to protect the
colonial regime. During that era the police personnel were
expected to use brute force on the people of Nigeria in their
service delivery. The major criterion for selecting men into the
force was the use of minimum height of the people not below 5
feet 8 inches. The study recommended that the use of height
as a major selection criterion has outlived its usefulness in
modern Nigeria Police since modern policing is mostly based on
intelligence gathering and specialized skills and therefore the
selection criteria should be revised in order to get better
performance

from

the

personnel.

The

research

again

recommended that the performance of the police personnel

could be enhanced if the personnel were further developed

through special learning processes that would equip the

personnel with IT and other intelligence gathering skills.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title
page

Certification
page..................................................................
Dedication
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Acknowledgement
.
Abstract
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Table of
contents
Chapter One
1.1 Introduction
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1.2 Statement of the
problem.
1.3 Research
questions
1.4 Objective/purpose of the
study..
1.5 Significance of the
study
Chapter Two
2.1