A professor of criminology from the University of Jos, Etannibi Alemika has said that the quality of governance in a country is what determines the quality of police and policing available in a society.
Professor Alemika who has been a member of one of the police reform committee since 2006 said the police cannot be reformed independently without reforming the polity as the security body is derived from the polity
‘The starting point for us should be, we cannot reform the police independent of the polity because the direction for policing is derived from the polity, and the quality of governance determines the quality of policing and police in the society”
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