[ 2014-08-28 ]

Interior Minister orders IGP to undertake mass transfers in Police Service
Interior Minister, Mark Woyongo has directed the
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Alhassan to
immediately submit a detailed programme to effect
mass transfers within the Service.

Mr. Woyongo says this has become necessary
because, some police officers have stayed at one
station “for too long” that they have
compromised their professionalism and have become
ineffective.

Addressing a durbar of Police officers in Upper
East Regional capital, Bolgatanga, Thursday, the
Interior Minister ordered that officers who have
served five years or more at one post should be
moved to other stations for them to be more
effective.

“People have stayed in one station for 20 to 30
years. It is not tenable at all. When you stay in
a place for too long you become very stale; you
become very ineffective [and] you compromise
yourself so please let us have a programme for
transfers,” he told the IGP, Mohammed Alhassan
who was also at the durbar.

“If you [police officer] are posted to a place
for five years [then] after the five years you
have to go,” Mr. Woyongo stated amidst cheers
from the police officers.

He however, cautioned the officers not to see
transfers as a punishment but as an opportunity
for them to bring to bear, knowledge acquired from
their previous stations and also acquire new
skills to perform better.

In response, the Inspector General of Police said
transfers in the Service have been streamlined to
align properly with the manpower capacity of the
Service.

This “deliberate approach” he indicated, is
“guided by the transfer policy recommended by
the Archer committee and approved by cabinet”.

“Unlike before, this time we are doing these
things [transfers] scientifically…We don't do
by-heart transfers anymore,” Mr. Alhassan
stated.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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