DIFFERENCES IN FORENSIC SCIENCE TRAINING AMONG THE INVESTIGATING POLICE OFFICERS IN NIGERIA

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  • M. S. Zakariyya Forensic Science Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
  • A. M. S Geshina Forensic Science Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v0i0.743

Gako-hitzak:

forensic investigation, Investigating Police Officers, Nigeria Police, police reform, police training

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Training remains an important activity which organisations should embrace to ensure achievement of organizational goals. With modernization and development in science and technology, police organisations should train their personnel in the area of forensic investigation, because it is a fair and reliable means of understanding how crimes and related issues occurred. Sociodemographic factors play an important role in determining who goes for training among workers in an organisations; this could apply to the Nigeria Police (NP) agency. The aim of this study was to understand whether there were differences in the attendance of forensic science training among the Investigating Police Officers (IPOs) in the NP, based on their sociodemographic characteristics, namely, gender, age, marital status, highest educational qualification, rank and years spent in service. Using sample survey method, information related to the frequency of forensic science training attendance and sociodemographic profiles of 401 IPOs was collected. SPSS was used to analyze the data. Although forensic training was generally infrequent among the IPOs, the results showed that the frequency of training attendance was not similar among the categories of age, marital status, highest educational qualification and years spent in service, but was the same in the categories of gender and rank of the IPOs. It is recommended that sociodemographic profiles of IPOs need to be properly considered in selecting who should attend forensic training among the IPOs.

 

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  • M. S. Zakariyya, Forensic Science Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

    Zakariyya Muhammad Sarki (B.Sc., M.Sc., pnm) is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria, where he teaches sociology and criminology courses. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Forensic Science Programme at the School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia; his research is on the application of forensic science in criminal investigations. Zakariyya is a trained criminal investigator and a member of the Association of Professional Negotiators and Mediators in Nigeria; he is also a member of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) as well as the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) International. He has published more than 15 academic articles in the area of crime prevention, policing and forensic science.

  • A. M. S Geshina, Forensic Science Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

    Geshina Ayu Mat Saat, Associate Professor, obtained her BHsc in Psychology from International Islamic Universiti Malaysia, M.Sc. in Applied Criminology from the University of Leicester, UK, and a Ph.D. in Criminology from Loughborough University, UK. She lectures at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in the Forensic Science Programme. She has published seven books, over 40 research articles, and 80 media-related materials. Geshina conducts researches and assists Malaysian Royal Police, Prison Department of Malaysia and other government agencies. She is a permanent voluntary committee member of the Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF).

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2020-02-27

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Vol 4, No 6 (2020)

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