Nigeria Police Academy
N.P.A | |
| Type | Police Academy |
|---|---|
| Established | February 1980, merged in 1996 |
| Endowment | Ministry of Police Affairs |
| Commandant | AIG. Lawal T. Jimeta |
| Location | , , Nigeria 11°50′N 8°28′E / 11.833°N 8.467°ECoordinates: 11°50′N 8°28′E / 11.833°N 8.467°E Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Campus | Kaduna Police College, Kaduna (disbanded since 1996), Kano Police Training School (merged with Kaduna Police College in 1996) |
| Colors | black, green and red |
| Nickname | Polak |
| Affiliations | NUC |
| Website | www |
Nigeria Police Academy known as NPA or POLAC is a police training college and university located in Wudil, Kano State.
History and foundation
The NPA dates back to the early 1980s when the federal government of Nigeria requested the availability of some officers who would assess Nigeria's training needs for an active police force. The request was made to the British force and later submitted its report in 1981 with detailing. Although, it was established in 1988 having two temporary campuses in different states, one was in Kaduna known as Police College and the other in Kano known as Police Training School Challawa, both of which operated on a different training capacity provided. The Kano temporary campus trained cadet inspectors and the Kaduna campus, which operated in training cadets as Assistant Superintendent of Police.
As of 1986, IGP Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta who was then Inspector General of Police sent a delegation of some Nigeria Police officers to undergo training at the Egyptian Police Academy so as to gain more training experience, which later had far-reaching effects on the foundation for the establishing of Nigeria Police Academy in Kano and to serve as an institution for high-level manpower development with a mission of training officers in high standards of professionalism.[1]
Cadets are trained on a four-year basis with the expectation of passing out as ASPs and Police Inspectors and are posted to any state commands to undergo another one-year attachment to acquire practical experience, similar to the Nigeria Defence Academy.[2]
Merged and degree-awarding
The temporary sites were later merged on 2 April 1996 by the then Head of State General Sani Abacha, and it now resides in a permanent site in Wudil, Kano. Under this arrangement, the academy became affiliated with a university for degree-awarding courses by the National University Commission as a federal university since 2012.[3]
Aims and Objectives
One of the aims of its establishment was to provide an institution capable of producing qualitative manpower within and in order to meet up with the middle-level manpower requirements of the Nigeria Police Force and to train officers with competences, a sound academic background, regarding high moral and professional standards of effective law enforcement and selfless service to their nation.
Faculties
- Faculty of Social and Management Science
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Law
References
- ↑ "About Us | NIGERIA POLICE ACADEMY". www.polac.edu.ng. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ↑ "Nigeria Police Force". www.npf.gov.ng. Archived from the original on 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ↑ Wangare, Jackline (2021-10-14). "Nigeria Police Academy school fees and training in 2021". Legit.ng - Nigeria news. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
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