A MUST READ: State Police: Dogara Gets Bill, Saraki Meets Speakers STATE POLICE BILL BY HON FEMI GBAJABIAMILA

A Few details about the proposed bill for each state to have police force.

The details of the bill are as follows: “217. (1) “There shall be a police force in each state of the Federation.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this constitution – (a) a state Police Force shall be organised and administered in accordance with such provisions as may be prescribed by an act of the State House of Assembly; (b) members of State Police shall have such powers and duties as may be conferred upon them by law.” Govs to appoint state CPs, LG police chiefs

“218. (1) “There shall be – (a) a Commissioner of Police who shall be appointed by the governor on the advice of the State Police Council from among serving members of the State Police Force; (b) a Head of Police for each state of the Local Government Area of the state to be appointed by the State Police Service Commission.

“(2) The State Police Force shall be under the command of the State Commissioner of Police.

“(3) The governor or such other commissioner of the government of the state as he may authorise in that behalf may give to the Commissioner of Police such lawful directions with respect to the maintenance and securing of public safety and public order as he may consider necessary, and the Commissioner of Police shall comply with those directions or cause them to be complied with.

“219. (1) Subject to the provisions of this constitution, the State House of Assembly may make laws for the further regulation and control of the State Police.

“The Principal Act is hereby amended by rearranging the existing sections 217 to 320 as sections 220 to 323. “The Principal Act is hereby amended by deleting item 45 from the exclusive legislative list in part 1 of the second schedule of the constitution.

“That the entire items on the Exclusive Legislative List in part 1 of the second schedule of the constitution is hereby rearranged and renumbered as items 1 to 67 with the exclusion of the deleted item under this Bill.” With Infobytes.