The Federal Government has announced that recruits for the Police Force and other gun-wielding security agencies are to undergo mandatory psychiatric and drug tests.
It added that those currently in the armed forces and the allied agencies will go through such tests periodically.
Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed announced this yesterday in Abuja as part of the measures taken by the government in the aftermath of last year’s #EndSARS protests.
Mohammed added: “NEC called on the leadership of the security agencies to ensure that persons recruited into arms-bearing security agencies undergo psychiatric evaluations and drug tests before enlistment and periodically after enlistment to ensure that the personal are psychologically, fit to carry live weapons and to identify behavioural tendencies that may require psycho-social intervention’s.
Other reforms are: “Persons recruited into arms-bearing security agencies undergo psychiatric evaluations and drug tests before enlistment and periodically after enlistment to ensure that the personnel are psychologically fit to carry live weapons and to identify behavioural tendencies that may require psycho-social interventions.
“Personnel of the agencies dutifully observe Rules of Engagement in the discharge of their functions/duties around and within the civilian populace.”
