Very often when politicians come to power and appoint the IGP, they think they have satisfied the ordinary police officer and for that matter do not worry their heads over issues that are critical to the survival of the ordinary police like accommodation, safety of the police officer when combating crimes particularly in remote areas … Read more
The Ghana Police Service is this morning dispatching hundreds of officers to different parts of the country to provide security at various polling stations in this year’s general elections. Hundreds of uniformed personnel reported to the Independence Square on Monday morning where a short exercise was carried to officially deploy them. Buses were also available … Read more
The Police Administration says officers who are found to have behaved unprofessionally during the Special Voting exercise will be sanctioned. Director of Police Operations, Dr Benjamin Agordzo, said officers who could not find their names to cast their ballot cannot vent their frustrations in any way they deem fit. They are bound to be professional … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will ensure an end to the resort to transfers or re-assignments as punishment for police personnel, acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, has disclosed. “Transfers and re-assignments will not be used as tools of coercion or instruments of punishment for security officers. It is inhuman to disrupt … Read more
The reputation of the Ghana Police in combating crime is admiring, however, their inability to preempt and quell politically colored disturbances and prosecute such offenders leaves much to be desired. Although Political Scientists suggest that “struggle” is characteristic of political power pursuit, violence of any sort is intolerable. A weak law enforcement agency is largelyto … Read more
The reputation of the Ghana Police in combating crime is admiring, however, their inability to preempt and quell politically colored disturbances and prosecute such offenders leaves much to be desired. Although Political Scientists suggest that “struggle” is characteristic of political power pursuit, violence of any sort is intolerable. A weak law enforcement agency is largelyto … Read more
The Police Service has rejected accusations that it is conniving with the Electoral Commission (EC) to unlawfully add the names of some police recruits to the special voters’ list. On Monday, Citi News intercepted a document suggesting that the Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC), have embarked on an exercise to … Read more
Police in the Ashanti Region have been charged to exhibit professionalism and neutrality in the discharge of their duties to ensure that the December 7 polls are conducted in an atmosphere of peace and justice. Regional Police Commander, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, says officers should not shirk their responsibilities under the cover of politics to … Read more
The Police Service has rejected accusations that it is conniving with the Electoral Commission (EC) to unlawfully add the names of some police recruits to the special voters’ list. On Monday, Citi News intercepted a document suggesting that the Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC), have embarked on an exercise to … Read more
The media in Ghana must be truthful in their reportage ahead of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections to avert chaos in the country, COP Kofi Boakye, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, has said. According to him, even if what the media reports on a matter that is true, they should first of all inform … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces to aid the police to provide much needed security during the 2016 elections Today the military high command would engage with the media to jaw-jaw over the forthcoming general elections in which officers and men would support the civilian Police to provide the much needed internal security. Sincerity and professionalism from … Read more
This is to prevent them from capturing votes with cameras on their phones. “We will ask them to drop them before you enter to vote.” Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Catherine Frimpong on Thursday, November 24, Director General of Police in charge of Operations Christian Tetteh Yohuno said the move is part of measures … Read more
Distributors and providers of state-of-the-art security products and services, Virtual Security Africa and Essence Security have donated some essential security equipment to the police. The items, valued at Ghc135.000 were presented to the Ghana Police Service in a short ceremony at the Police Headquarters in Accra. They included 10 Bullet Proof Vests with level plates, … Read more
Often times, I sit by my Tv and radio sets and listen to political pundits and analysts making their projections based on opinion polls and trends just to make conclusions about who will win the elections come 7th December. I laugh a little bit. They would take constituency by constituencies and digest them into details … Read more
Citi News has intercepted a document suggesting that the Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC), have embarked on an exercise to add the names of more Police officers and recruits to the special voters’ list. Although the exercise for the creation of the special voters list ended on October 28; 42 … Read more
Five armed robbers are in the grips of the Wassa Akropong Police command in the Western region for allegedly robbing Chinese nationals of their properties at their residence on Monday dawn at a suburb called Lowcost. The suspects were fished out of their hideouts at Aboadze through an iPhone tracking device which was part of … Read more
A security analyst with the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping and Training Centre (KAIPTC), Dr Emmanuel Kwesi Aning has bemoaned political interference in the work of the Ghana police Service saying it undermines the esprit de corps of the institution. Dr Aning’s assertion follows clashes between supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama never instigated any clash between supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and those of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and any “statements of such allegations are ridiculous”, the Accra Regional Organiser of the NDC, Anthony Nukpenu, has said. He was reacting to comments by the Women’s Organiser of the … Read more
The Women’s Organiser of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Otiko Afisa Djaba, has accused President John Mahama of being behind the recent violent clash between supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in front of flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo’s private residence at Nima. “He [John … Read more
President John Mahama has blamed the police for Sunday’s clashes between supporters of the NPP and NDC. “Only last Saturday we almost had a clash which was unfortunate, if any of those firearms had been fired and someone had dropped dead it would have been a completely different story. I think we should be preventive … Read more