CONSTABLE RECRUITMENT: BOARD CONFIRMS 20 CENTRES FOR MEDICAL SCREENING AS ARASE PRAYS FOR SUCCESSFUL EXERCISE
The Police Service Commission Recruitment Board that is mandated by the Police Service Commission on the ongoing recruitment into the Constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force has confirmed twenty centres for Medical Screening on shortlisted candidates base on the prerequisites set by the Board.
According to a released document signed by the Police Service Commission, Spokeperson, Ikechukwu Ani, who listed distinguished Nigerians on the Police Recruitment Board having Chief Onyemuche Nnamani Commissioner of the Police Service Commission as Chairman, DIG Frank Mbah, on Training from the Nigeria Police Force. Deputy Commissioner of Police Bode Akinbamilowo, Secretary of the Board, Sanusi Yusuf, an Assistant Director with the Police Service Commission are tasked to carry out the National assignment.
The PSC Spokeperson, Ikechukwu Ani while giving credence to the exercise said the Board members were drawn from Nigerians Police Service Commission, Nigeria Police Force, Ministry of Police Affairs, Federal Character Commission, Police Trust Fund and Police Colleges.
The Board members ensure that the standard set to evaluate the ability, capacity and suitability of the applicants for the job is noteworthy hence , the medical screening exercise to evaluate their health conditions. On April 16th, 2024 applicant’s will undergo the last of the screenings with the medical examination. The medical screening will last for two weeks, Ani has said in the report.
To ensure a hitch free exercise, the Police Service Commission Recruitment Board has selected twenty screening centres across the country, representing the six geopolitical zones in the country, while successful applicants have been contacted to report to their designated centres for the medical screening exercise accordingly.
For applicants preview, the accredited medical screening centres are:
Zone 1 Kano; Police cottage hospital Bompai, Kano; Zone 2 Lagos; Police College Ikeja; Zone 3 Yola, Police Clinic Yola; Zone 4, Makurdi, Police Clinic Makurdi; Zone 5 , Benin, Police Cottage hospital, Benin and Zone 6, Calabar, Police hospital Calabar.Other centres are, Zone 7, Abuja, MD Abubakar Police Hospital Dei Dei Abuja; Zone 8 Lokoja, Police Clinic, Lokoja; Zone 9 , Umuahia, Police Hospital Umuahia, Zone 10, Sokoto, PTS Clinic Sokoto;
Zone 11 Osogbo, Police Hospital Osogbo; Zone12 Bauchi, PTS Clinic Bauchi; Zone 13 Ukpo, Police Hospital Awka; Zone 14, Katsina, Ibrahim Coomassie Cottage Hospital Katsina; Zone 15 Maiduguri, Police College, Maiduguri and Zone 16, yenagoa, Zone 16 Headquarters Yenagoa.
The other four centres are; Zone 17, Akure, Police Hospital Akure; Zone 18, Yobe, Utral Modern Police Hospital, Gashua Road, Damaturu; Zone 19, Kaduna, Police College Clinic Kaduna and Zone 20, Gusau, Police Secondary School clinic Zaria Road Gusau.
The Police Service Commission Chairman, Dr Solomon Arase CFR and former Inspector General of Police thank the Police Recruitment Board for holding on the sagacious beliefs on being patriotic in coming this far , while he admonished applicants to make use with the available windows, “ensure to keep the dates and time allocated to them, adding that medical professionals have been selected to examine their medical status which is one of the requirements for the recruitment”.
After the medical screening exercise, successful applicants will report at designated Police Colleges for the mandatory training. Dr Solomon Arase CFR has said according to Ikechukwu Ani’s report
