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The National Conference on Thursday voted for the establishment of state police in the country. The conference, which also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to stop pardoning corrupt leaders, however said only states that had the financial capacity to fund state police should create it. Apart from this, the conference adopted the recommendation by the Committee on National Security, that state laws should be used as a guide for community policing. But there were a lot of disagreements among the delegates on the mode of transfer of federal policemen to states. While some insisted that police officers should be allowed to serve only in their states for effective policing, others disagreed, saying such a gesture could be misused by politicians.