The Police Recruitment Board set up by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to midwife the ongoing recruitment of Nigerians into the Constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force has confirmed twenty centres for the medical screening of successful and shortlisted applicants from the just concluded computer based tests conducted by the Joint Admission and Martriculation Board (JAMB).
PSC’s Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, made this known in a statement on Thursday, April 4.
The medical screening is one of the several processes put in place by the Board to evaluate the applicants for their suitability for the job.
The applicants had earlier been subjected to physical and credentials screening, followed by Computer Based Test (CBT), and will on April 16 undergo the last of the screenings with the medical examination.
The PSC spokesman said that the medical screening would last for two weeks.
He listed the 20 centres selected for the exercise as Police Cottage Hospital Bompai, Kano, in Zone 1; Police College, Ikeja in Zone 2; Police Clinic, Yola, in Zone 3; Police Clinic, Makurdi, in Zone 4; Police Cottage Hospital, Benin, in Zone 5 and Police Hospital, Calabar, in Zone 6.
Others are MD Abubakar Police Hospital, Dei Dei, Abuja, in Zone 7; Police Clinic, Lokoja in Zone 8; Police Hospita,l Umuahia, in Zone Zone9; PTS Clinic, Sokoto, in Zone 10; Police Hospital, Osogbo, in Zone 11; PTS Clinic, Bauchi, in Zone 12; Police Hospital, Awka, in Zone 13; Ibrahim Coomassie Cottage Hospital, Katsina, in Zone 14; and Police College, Maiduguri, in Zone 15.
The remaining centres are Zone 16 Headquarters Yenagoa; Police Hospital, Akure, in Zone 17; Ultra Modern Police Hospital, Gashua Road, Damaturu, in Zone 18; Police College Clinic, Kaduna, in Zone 19 and Police Secondary School Clinic, Zaria Road, Gusau, in Zone 20.
Ani said that the candidates for the medical screening had already been contacted on the dates and time for their screening.
Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase, a retired Inspector General of Police was said to have prayed for a successful conclusion of the recruitment exercise.
He reportedly advised the applicants to ensure that they keep to the dates and time allocated to them, adding that medical professionals had been selected to examine their medical status which is one of the requirements for the recruitment.
Dr. Arase said successful applicants would report at designated Police Colleges for the mandatory training.
The Police Recruitment Board has Chief Onyemuche Nnamani Commissioner of the Police Service Commission as Chairman, assisted by Deputy Inspector General, Training, Frank Mbah.
Others are Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bode Akinbamilowo, who is the Board’s Secretary and Sanusi Yusuf, an Assistant Director with the Police Service Commission.
Membership of the Board are drawn from the Police Service Commission, Nigeria Police Force, Ministry of Police Affairs, Federal Character Commission, Police Trust Fund and Police Colleges.
