According to the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) report released by the International Police Science Association (IPSA) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the Nigeria Police is ranked 127th and the last among the countries under review.

Despite being ranked 47 in the world, Botswana has Africa’s best police service while the Rwandan police ranked as the continent’s second best (with global position of 50th) closely followed by Senegal (68th) and Tunisia (72nd).

Completing the top 10 best police services in Africa are Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa and Mali while Uganda, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria made it an African quartet at the bottom–occupying 124th to 127th positions in the world.

Following the failure of African countries to break into the top forty in the world, the continent was prominent in the lower rankings as six African countries were listed among the bottom 10.

At the top of the global ratings, Europe dominated with eight countries besides Singapore and Australia who placed first and sixth respectively.

WISPI, which measure the ability of the police and other security agencies to address internal security issues in 127 countries across four domains using sixteen indicators had Finland, Denmark, Austria, Germany (2nd – 5th), Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (7th – 10th) in the top 10 countries.

The aim of WISPI is to measure the performance of security providers across the four domains on internal security, capacity, process, legitimacy and outcomes as well as relate how the domains performed over time in the areas of peace and conflict studies, criminology and police studies.