[ 2012-05-14 ]

16,000 police officers to benefit from election security training
Sixteen thousand police officers across the
country are to undergo a two week election
security training programme.

The programe funded by the UK’s Department for
International Development (DFID) is to get the
officers acquainted with election policing and to
ensure peace in the upcoming December elections.

The training programme was announced at the Police
Headquarters in Accra on Monday.

The Director of DFID Danny Graymore said the
training programme will go a long way to upgrade
the knowledge of the security personnel in
“election laws, public order and prevention of
election related violence.”

There will also be the improvement in the National
Communications Infrastructure to facilitate radio
communications across the country for intelligence
gathering by the police, he added.

The programme is set to begin next week in Accra
with a similar programme to be held in the Ashanti
Region in June.

He said with sub-region dogged with many election
related violence, Ghana, with its security
agencies, must ensure “they have the right skills,
the right equipments that they are in the right
place and they make the right decisions about
risks and act crucially, that they can change
deployments when new risks emerge, they can change
the steps they are taking to help manage the
process and a successful election,” he said.

Joy News’ Anny Osabutey who was present at the
conference said the police administration was
extremely excited about training programme.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police Mohammed
Alhassan said he is particularly happy because the
programme will involve practical activities.

He said the Ghana Police Service is determined to
follow best practice all over the world, adding
the training programme will go a long way to help
the personnel in their preparation towards the
December elections.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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