Osanyade, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, also said the force was ‘sick.’

Speaking on the NPF, he said: "It lacks infrastructural facilities, adequate equipment and logistics. They need befitting structures that would beautify and not deface the cities".

Osayande spoke while meeting journalists in Sokoto shortly before his departure from the seat of the caliphate where he toured formations in the zone.

He said he was committed to instituting the needed apparatus for a new look police. The former Police chief assured that the Commission would help to redeem the lingering image of the police force against public stigmatisation.

Mr. Osayande said the commission was undoubtedly beaming its search-light on the police to ensure absolute monitoring in terms of due process with regards to administrative duties like promotion, discipline and operational postings with a view to actualising sustainable reform agenda and policy framework that would stand the test of time within the system.

He attributed the emerging ugly trend that polarised the functions of the police to long neglect hatched by the military, pointing out that there had been persistent under funding which results in lack of relevant necessities.

The PSC Chairman pointed out that the constitutional role of the police dwelled on three basic components of operation, saying that "the human factor, transportation and communication" which he described as impediments, were essential for peace, security and social unity.

The retired DIG, explained that the government of President  Yar’Adua was focusing on fundamental issues bordering the police and which are responsible for their dwindling performance in the discharge of their constitutional role of ensuring peace, security and social unity, hence the nationwide renovation of barracks accommodation, upward review of salaries and attractive allowances to boost their morale.

However, the PSC Chairman said based on that, the commission has now developed spirited and efficient action plan to strictly uphold the rule of law in accordance with President Yar Adua’s seven-point agenda. This, he noted, has quashed police past approach to service for the public.  

"In the past, the police was operating dual approach to the rule of law; service to the rich and to the poor", he pointed out.