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      Accounts of Unlawful Use of Force and Misconduct of the Nigerian Police in the Enforcement of COVID-19 Measures

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      Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
      Springer US
      COVID-19, Misconduct, Nigeria police, Pandemic, Victims

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          In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigeria police was entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating local shutdowns, encouraging social distancing, enforcing stay-at-home mandates, and supervising compulsory wearing of face masks. Drawing from procedural justice theory, this study explored accounts of unlawful use of force, human rights violations, and other police misconducts that resulted from the enforcement of COVID-19 measures. Using a victim-centred approach involving qualitative, in-depth interviews with 71 people, who perceived their encounters with the police enforcing COVID-19 measures as bordering on their rights, were conducted, and a thematic analysis of the narratives carried out. Participants reported significant variety of police aggression directed towards them: including actual threats of physical violence, hostility, intimidation, extortion, and punishment. Female participants reported incidents of sexual harassment, unwanted sexual advances, and assault. The study concludes that the militarized option adopted by the police to enforce COVID-19 measures drew deeper divides between the police and communities than previously existed. This stresses the need for Nigeria police to train officers, reprimand erring officers, and deploy procedural justice principles in enforcing COVID-19 measures.

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                Contributors
                aborisade.richard@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng
                Journal
                J Police Crim Psychol
                J Police Crim Psychol
                Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
                Springer US (New York )
                0882-0783
                1936-6469
                3 February 2021
                : 1-13
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.412320.6, ISNI 0000 0001 2291 4792, Department of Sociology, , Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, ; P.M.B. 2002, Ago Iwoye, Ogun, Nigeria
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7485-2351
                Article
                9431
                10.1007/s11896-021-09431-4
                7854878
                33551547
                edc494d9-7158-4eed-bb80-89a06933b6a7
                © Society for Police and Criminal Psychology 2021

                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                : 19 January 2021
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