George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector General of Police, has implemented strict steps to bolster national security.
The IGP claims that these actions are just a small fraction of the service’s extensive efforts to increase security and ensure everyone in Ghana is secure.
The IGP stated that the police have created a variety of policies and tactics in that respect while speaking at a public lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Thursday, August 11, 2022.
The IGP claims that the measures, which include hotspot policing, welfare, and professionalism rules, will, among other things, enhance the service, assure effective and moral policing, and lower crime rates nationwide.
A realistic leadership-driven command and control culture has been established at all levels of the service, according to the IGP, so that all employees are aware of what has to be done and make sure the proper steps are taken to ensure that it is done.
The IGP has implemented the following new regulations to transform police and lower crime in Ghana:
– All police officers are being sensitized and conscientious about the way they relate with the public.
– All name tags on police uniforms are permanent, and cannot be removed.
– All Police officers to introduce themselves with names, stations, etc. before they interact with any member of the public.
– Response time to emergencies or calls was reduced to an average of fewer than 10 minutes.
– Established regional intelligent departments across all regions to ensure safety
– Police hotline to be made active
– Hotspot policing with special forces or deployment to ensure reduced crime
– All cases that come to the police are investigated, and families are supported, and seeing the case through.
– Proactive engagement through community policing – using dogs, 2000 motorbikes, horses, etc.
– Reactive engagement – Judicial commander, regional, IGP to visit victims and scenes involving major cases and victims are called and spoken to.
– Cultivation of informants across to provide information, when it is processed, informants are paid about 1000 or 5000.
– To allow every police officer to go for United Nations Peacekeeping to encourage international exposure and give equal opportunities to everyone.
– Regional welfare directorates are established across the country to ensure the welfare of all police officers is covered.
– All indisposed police officers will be visited and measures have been put in to secure their welfare
– Retirement planning policy to help transit into retirement to help make the process stress free
– Established police emergency medical intervention funds to assist police officials who get injured in the line of duty get assistance anywhere they are without having to be financially burdened.
– Established police emergency medical intervention funds to assist police officials who get injured in the line of duty get assistance anywhere they are without having to be financially burdened.
– Establishment of a police medical center for all police officials to access medical care from any police hospital.
– Retirement planning policy to help transit into retirement to help make the process stress free
– Pension processes are decentralized to ensure that person doesn’t have to travel to process their pension benefits.
– Measures are put in place to ensure that police who die in the line of duty are replaced with qualified relatives during recruitment into the police service as a way of pacifying the family.