The most civilized of nations operate state police because of its attendant benefits. Moreover, a true federal setup … should imbibe the idea of a state police. Nigeria as a country is part of the globe and cannot sheer away from the … responsibility of decentralizing its police force. The article therefore sought to argue for the need for state police in all states …

to recruit and control informers. State Police recruited and promoted to the position of its Chief Officer (Oberkommissar … that there were a number of Czech top-politicians serving as informers of the State Police. This idea was reinforced by the … police effort to move the State Police archive to Vienna or to destroy it during the revolution of October 1918. By the end …