Take it or leave it, the Police has never issued free uniforms to its men since 1988 after Muhammadu Gambo's first Blue uniform and French Cap introduction. The store Officers collect these items and resume serious sales through intermediaries with the full knowledge of the mot senior logistic officer, often a Commissioner in charge.
The rot in the Police Force is endemic and does not require "occasional political face saving and I still DEY campe" statements by the IGP to confuse gullible publics.
The police lack Administrative and Human relationship experts to entrench enduring system and its like this will continue for some time to come, until the federal Government brings in outsiders like the FRSC, from time to time to change the syche and systems for the better.