Why we conduct psychiatric test on police recruits – DIG

The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Administration, Shuaibu Lawal Gambo, has explained that the police conduct psychiatric test on recruits to curb incidences of accidental discharge by its personnel.
The DIG gave this explanation in Minna at the weekend during a working visit to Niger state on the ongoing recruitment exercise by the police nationwide. He said that the psychiatric test was aimed at ascertaining the mental alertness of applicants into the police force, adding: “we do not want to train and hand over guns to people who will turn their firearms against the citizens they were trained to protect.”
He warned that any of its officers and men involved in any corrupt tendencies during the ongoing recruitment exercises would be dismissed from service while applicants who gives the bribe will be disqualified. DIG Gambo said about 6,000 applied for recruitment in Niger state to become the highest in the country, adding that his visit to the state was to ensure transparency in the whole exercise.
While assuring that measures put in place would be strictly followed to ensure that the best candidates are recruited, the DIG regretted that the last recruitment exercise was almost marred by complaints of selection of non indigenes by various states, explaining that efforts had been put in place to avoid such mistakes this time around. He said the Inspector General, Ibrahim Idris Kpetu has however written a letter of request to President Muhammadu Buhari seeking for approval to increase the number of recruitment as earlier directed by the presidency, hoping that the President would look into the request and approve compassionately