Recruitment: Anambra Police Disqualify Candidates With Tattoos On Their Bodies

Raymond Ozoji March 11, 2026

RAYMOND OZOJI reports

The Anambra State Police Command has disqualified some candidates seeking recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for having tattoos on their bodies. Others were disqualified on grounds of age because they didn't meet the statutory age requirements.

Disclosing this in his office during an exclusive interview at the command headquarters Amawbia Awka-South Local Government Area, Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, said the candidates were fished out at the ongoing physical and credentials screening taking place at the command headquarters.

The police image maker who told this journalist that the ongoing recruitment exercise was not business as usual, maintained that the recruitment is strictly on merit because they are careful about the type of individuals coming into the Force.

Ikenga disclosed that no candidate or applicant was asked to pay for anything or engage in any type of monetary transactions because the team handling the screening of candidates were persons of impeccable characters.

Ikenga also expressed delight that Anambra indigenes are coming up for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).

He noted that stakeholders such as Police Campaign Against Cultism, Police Community Relations, Government Delegation, Federal Character Commission, Police Service Commission and Ministry of Police Affairs, were all incorporated into the recruitment exercise to ensure transparency and merit in the entire process.

The Anambra police spokesman who reinforced his position saying that there is no fee attached to any of the stages of the recruitment process, emphasized that no applicant would be shortchanged because they are not collecting money from anybody.

He explained that the team leader of the recruitment exercise DCP Ngozi Ezeabata, who is also DCP in charge of Finance and Administration of the state command and other stakeholders made it abundantly clear that no candidate will pay for anything because the entire process is strictly free and based on merit.