2016 Police Recruitment: PSC Shortlists 110,469 Applicants For Aptitude Test

The Police Service Commission, PSC, on Friday confirmed that 110,469 applicants out of the 338, 250 invited for the screening at the states and FCT Police Commands, have come out successful and therefore shortlisted for zonal aptitude test.

The Chairman of the commission, Mr Mike Okiro, said that out of the 110, 469 applicants, 22, 454 were shortlisted for Cadet ASPs, 24, 456 for Cadet Inspectors and 63, 559 for Police Constables.

The former IG stated that aptitude test for cadet ASPs for both general duty and specialists will begin on August 22 while that of Cadet Inspectors for both general duty and specialists will hold on August 23, adding that the test for police constables for both cadres would take place on August 24.

Document and physical screening of specialists is scheduled for August 29 after they will have taken the aptitude tests.

Okiro also disclosed that some of the applicants were screened out for alteration, over age, and falsification of documents and graduation date. Other parameters included physical features, tattoo marks, first school leaving certificate, certificate of state origin and class of degree or diploma.

Over 115 applicants who were nabbed during the screening exercise were handed over to the police for proper investigation and subsequent prosecution while also reiterating the commission’s desire to sustain the integrity of the exercise, saying that questions for the tests would only be disclosed to the coordinators on the examination date.

The PSC boss reassured Nigerians that the exercise would be transparent and all applicants would be given equal playing field to pursue a career in the police force.

He said that emails have been sent to all shortlisted applicants, adding that the master list for each state had been sent to all state commands to paste at command headquarters and examination centres and that the commission was not under pressure from any quarter to favour any candidate.

''There were zero reports of misconduct against any coordinator during the screening'' he added.

The commission received 911,438 applications comprising 262, 462 for cadet ASPs, and 211,832 for cadets Inspector and 437,144 for police constables and shortlisted 338,250 for the screening.