Nigeria is a federal-state but the policing system is decentralised. This entails that state governors do not have much role to play in policing their respective states. Hence, the quest to examine the system of policing in other federal states to juxtapose it with what is obtainable in Nigeria with the view to strengthen the policing institution in terms of efficiency and effective policing.
I agree with what Michael Cretacci said is his answer.
I would just like to add the following:
Usually you have either a unitary or a federal system. The unitary system has a central government who may delegate power to created agencies. In my opinion, in the case of a unitary system, the "danger" for political inference becomes too big a risk. The state capture saga in South Africa is a very good example of where such a unitary system has been compromised.
A federal system where not all governmental powers are held by a central authority, has less risk of political interference, making it a more viable model to ensure law enforcement at its best.
However, for policing a federal state, I would suggest that you compare Nigeria's system with that of a developed country with the same type of policing (in your case, a federal system). Compare to see what they are doing different and why they are doing it different.
Also, what I have found in my own research, is that the employment requirements (and meeting these requirements), plays a rather big role in the quality of law enforcement.
Brazil is a tipical example of a federal-state with policing system decentralised. There are 26 states plus the Federal District (like Washington, D.C.) each one with its civil police (as judiciary police that makes the investigations and sends the findings to the state attorney that will offer (or not) the case to the state jurisdiction). But Brazil also has an Federal Policy wich makes the investigations about subjects affected to the Union (federal level) as international trafficking in drugs, arms and people, but also is the migration agency, the border police and some other roles (unfortunely the federal police site -- https://www.gov.br/pf/ --- is under reconstruction and there's no page in English available).
Recently (the last 10 years) Brazil had experienced some effort to integrate the criminal databases of the state polices (including the federal police).
On the other hand, each of the 26 states (plus the Federal District) of Brazil has a militarized police entrusted to law enforcement (known as the military of the state governors during the military dictatorship period (1964-1985)). Please note that Brazil has Criminal, Civil and Processual (crime and civil) Codes established as federal laws -- national abrangency. This give some uniformity between the courts of 1st and 2nd level of the states (and there are also the federal courts of 1st and 2nd level), whose cases could be appealed to a federal superior court (https://international.stj.jus.br/en ; that differs from the Constitutional Court).
With this brief note my intention is to empathize the implications to the police organisation: (i) the alignment between the cultural and legal tradition (Civil or Common law); (ii) the degree of law uniformity between the federal units; (iii) the fonts of revenue and degree of liberty in the budget destination (a subject not mentioned above that renders another brick).
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