Since Ghana’s independence in 1957, the country has been exploring measures to increase women’s participation in governance. This is in recognition of the fact that women’s contribution to labour, productivity and family sustenance cannot be overemphasised, and these justify women’s participation in the country’s political process. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo at the 2016 annual WASSA of the Ghana Police Service Government is to build two police hospitals, one in Sunyani and the other in Bolgatanga to take care of the health needs of officers in the northern part of Ghana. The two hospitals, when complete, will complement the work of the only … Read more
President Akufo-Addo has charged personnel of the Police Service to remain neutral and Professional in the discharge of their duties. He said he does not want the officers to be appendages of his government. He advised the security officers to recognize the crucial role they play in ensuring the safety of the public. Speaking at … Read more
President Akufo-Addo has charged personnel of the Police Service to remain neutral and Professional in the discharge of their duties. He said he does not want the officers to be appendages of his government. He advised the security officers to recognise the crucial role they play in ensuring the safety of the public. Speaking at … Read more
FEAR and anguish have gripped chiefs and people of Sefwi, Mafia, a farming community in Sefwi Juaboso District of the Western Region, following the arrest of 22 opinion leaders by soldiers and police officers. The incident, Today learnt, occurred at 2:00 a.m., dawn yesterday. The soldiers and police officers, according to residents, beat them up including innocent students, for picketing against … Read more
Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has for the third time reshuffled some officers in the police top hierarchy, barely a month after assuming office. In the latest shake-up, Public Relations Officer for the Ashanti Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Yusif Mohammed Tanko, has been transferred to the Northern Regional … Read more
IT has been described as barbaric the way and manner some police officers in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region handled jubilant students of Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI) last week. The said distasteful scene occurred on Valentine’s Day (Tuesday, February 14, 2014), a day that we were expected to show love towards one another. ACCORDING to … Read more
The Ashanti regional SWAT Commander Superintendent Christopher Klomegah and the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the police command ASP Yusif Mohammed Tanko have been booted out of the region. The Minister of Education Mathew Opoku Prempeh on Abusua FM’s Abusua Nkommo hosted by Kwame Adinkra on Thursday called for the dismissal of the two following … Read more
The Acting Inspector General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu, has rung yet another shake-up within the senior ranks of the Ghana Police Service. Among the changes, which took immediate effect upon a press release on Friday, February 17, sees the Public Relations Officers (PROs) of the Ashanti, Eastern and Northern regional commands making moves. Popular gospel … Read more
Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante Apeatu, has made yet another change in the top police hierarchy less than a month after his appointment. This is the third in a series of major changes made in the Service since he was appointed on January 25 by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In a … Read more
Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, has called on the people of Bimbilla to let last Thursday’s chieftaincy related killings be the last in the area. Mr. Dery made the call when he led a government delegation to visit the Regent of Bimbilla at his palace on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 as part of a fact-finding … Read more
Minister of the Interior Ambrose Dery has assured the chiefs and people of Bimbilla of the government’s commitment to restore lasting peace in the area. He said the government was committed to ensuring that residents of Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District in the Northern Region went about their activities without any fear. The minister, … Read more
Minister for Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, has called on the people of Bimbilla to let last Thursday’s chieftaincy related killings be the last in the area. Mr Dery made the call when he led a government delegation to visit the Regent of Bimbilla at his palace on Tuesday as part of a fact-finding mission to … Read more
The Interior Ministry is undertaking a restructuring of the procedure used by the Ghana Police Service to recruit officers. Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, says the move is aimed at to riding the Service of criminals. “How do you have policemen becoming armed robbers? It means that the recruitment wasn’t well done. If we had investigated … Read more
National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams has written to the Acting Inspector General of Police to use his high office to order the release of his five vehicles from police custody. According to Mr Adams, the vehicles are in the custody of the police unlawfully. In the letter intercepted by 3news.com, … Read more
ON Friday, February 3, 2017 the Ghana Police Service sent home some two hundred and six (206) new police recruits. The reason for that action by the police hierarchy was that these recruits had entered the service with fictitious certificates. THERE were also among these sacked recruits who did not meet the minimum qualification requirement … Read more
EXECUTIVE Director of the Institute of Governance and Security (IGS), David Agbey, has described the decision by the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, to make major changes in the Police Service, following his appointment as a laudable initiative. According to him, the changes should not come as a surprise to Ghanaians since transfers … Read more
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has petitioned the Police Administration to investigate the circumstances leading to the death of Bismark Bebli, the Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Bebli died on his birthday, January 13, 2017, when he was knocked down by a ‘trotro’ in front of the Kasoa Police Station. The petition addressed to the … Read more
Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante Apeatu must institute measures to address corruption in the Ghana Police Service, David Agbey, Executive Secretary of policy think tank Ghana Institute of Governance and Security (GIGS), has admonished. The security analyst further explained that impunity within the service needed to be addressed. He told Moro Awudu … Read more
The reassignment of Ashanti Regional Police Commander COP Nathan Kofi Boakye and other officers was not because there had been a change of government, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, has said. COP Kofi Boakye has been reassigned to head the Accra Police Research and Planning unit. This was … Read more