Germany’s cabinet has approved the deployment of eight helicopters and 350 more soldiers to Mali as part of the UN peacekeeping mission there, Reuters reports. The aircraft, which comprise both attack and transport helicopters, will replace Dutch ones. After the deployment, which must be approved by the German parliament, the European nation will have 1,000 … 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
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will ensure that two Prisons Service hospitals are constructed to cater for the health needs of personnel in the service, acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, has stated. In a bid to rejuvenate the security services in the country, the party says it will provide several incentives … Read more
The National Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to improve the living conditions of security personnel, in addition to treating members of the security services fairly. In a statement copied to Ghanaweb.com, the NPP laid out 17 key policies the party will implement to achieve this objective if voted into power come December 7. With members … Read more
Commanding Officer of Formed Police Unit (FPU) Chief Superintendent Hamza Yakubu has dismissed reports that the FPU trainees are being prepared to be deployed illegally during the 7 December election. The FPU, a new unit in the police service, will be deployed to South Sudan on peacekeeping operations. Speaking at the passing out ceremony of … Read more
The military ombudsman has no idea what has happened to the 20 allegations of sexual crimes committed by South African peacekeeping troops that it referred to the defence force for investigation. A year after referring a report by the SA Gender Commission that alleged sexual misconduct by members of the SANDF on a UN peacekeeping … Read more
The United Nations is requesting additional 170 police peacekeepers from Ghana to be deployed in South Sudan in January, 2017. Ghana currently has a 440 police peacekeeping force in South Sudan, the largest from any member nation in the world. The country joined the police peacekeeping operations in August 2015 after the armoured car squadron … Read more
President John Mahama has approved an increase in the allowances of all soldiers who embark on peacekeeping missions to 700 dollars and allowance for all uniformed personnel has also been increased to GHC120. These new approvals take effect from 3 September, 2016 and follows concerns raised by the military personnel when the president visited the … Read more
President John Mahama has approved an increase in the allowances of all soldiers who embark on peacekeeping missions to 700 dollars and allowance for all uniformed personnel has also been increased to GHC120. These new approvals take effect from 3 September, 2016 and follows concerns raised by the military personnel when the president visited the … Read more