Governor Hyacinth Alia Benue State has promised his administration commitment to improve the facilities at the Police Training School, to enable a good number of Benue indigenes to be trained and enlisted into the police force.

The Governor who decried the high level of youth unemployment in the state, says the police recruitment exercise would enable a good number of them to be taken off the street, making them employed and becoming useful to the society.

Governor Alia who commended the police recruitment team posted to Benue state to screen shortlisted applicants for the 2023 Nigerian Police recruitment exercise who had visited him in government house, Makurdi

He thanked the federal government for domiciling and making the Police Training School, at Wanune inTarka local government area, as a training Centre for Benue and many other neighboring states,

Earlier, the leader of the team, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dominic Iornumbe, said the team had concluded documentation and uploading of the screened applicants, and that they were in the Government House to intimate him on the overall success of their assignment in the state.

They expressed the readiness of the Police Force's high command, as well as the Police Service Commission to recruit as many people from the state, if the facilities at the police training school domiciled in the state, are improved upon, as the facility currently lacks the capacity to train the number the government may wish, especially as it is also a training center for applicants from neighboring Kogi, Taraba and Nasarawa states.

Out of a total number of 25,346 applicants shortlisted from Benue state, 19, 258 applicants were screened. while 13, 992 have been recommended for training, 5, 266 applicants did not make the recommendation list.

Highlighting some of their challenges during the assignment, the team said apart from certificate discrepancies and the issue of applicant's heights, a huge number of non-indigenes were discovered to have forged certificate of Benue state indigeneship, posing to be from local government areas such as Guma, Makurdi, Katsina Ala, Vandeikya, Ado, Ohimini.