Twenty locations have been approved by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to do medical screenings on qualified and selected candidates from the recently finished computer-based exams (CBT) for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) administered by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

One of the many procedures used by the Police Recruitment Board, which was established by the PSC, to assess applicants’ fitness for positions is the medical screening.

The candidates underwent a physical examination, a background check, a computerized behavioral test, and a final screening that included a medical assessment on April 16, 2024.

The duration of the medical screening is two weeks.

According to PSC spokesman Ikechukwu Ani, the 20 locations chosen for the exercise are:

Zone 1 Kano; Police Cottage Hospital Bompai, Kano;

Zone 2 Lagos; Police College Ikeja;

Zone 3 Yola, Police Clinic Yola;

Zone 4, Makurdi, Police Clinic Makurdi;

Zone 5 , Benin, Police Cottage hospital, Benin and

Zone 6, Calabar, Police hospital Calabar.

Zone 7, Abuja, MD Abubakar Police Hospital Dei Dei Abuja;

Zone 8 Lokoja, Police Clinic, Lokoja;

Zone 9 , Umuahia, Police Hospital Umuahia,

Zone 10, Sokoto, PTS Clinic Sokoto;

Zone 11 Osogbo, Police Hospital Osogbo;

Zone12 Bauchi, PTS Clinic Bauchi;

Zone 13 Ukpo, Police Hospital Awka;

Zone 14, Katsina, Ibrahim Coomassie Cottage Hospital Katsina;

Zone 15 Maiduguri, Police College, Maiduguri and

Zone 16, yenagoa, Zone 16 Headquarters Yenagoa.

The other four centres are;

Zone 17, Akure, Police Hospital Akure;

Zone 18, Yobe, Utral Modern Police Hospital, Gashua Road, Damaturu;

Zone 19, Kaduna, Police College Clinic Kaduna and

Zone 20, Gusau, Police Secondary School clinic Zaria Road Gusau.

The candidates for the medical screening, according to Ani, have already been notified of the dates and times of their examination.

In the meantime, former inspector general of police Dr. Solomon Arase, the commission’s chairman, prayed for the recruitment process to end well.