Policy think tank Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation wants the Police Service to be retooled so they could fight crime.
ILAPI was responding to the killing of the Police officer and a trader by suspected armed robbers on Monday.
A statement issued by the think tank also expressed disappointment in the police for failing to put a bounty on the head of the alleged killers of the Police officer.
”It is also unfortunate, the presser from the Ghana Police Administration didn’t announce a bounty on the head of the perpetrators nor a message of condolences to the bereaved family. It’s an open secret that our society today has lost the passion to engage in pro-social volunteerism but anticipation for material and financial motivation or rewards. Hence the need to encourage individuals through all legitimate means to volunteer valuable information to these regrettable incidents (s).
The presser also failed to tell the time and duration the incident took place. The seeming increasing state of insecurity provokes the need for an elaborate account of events. However, we share with the police administration the pain and loss of one of their own.”
Read the full statement below
Press Statement
Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation – ILAPI
15/06/21
Ghana Police Service Must be Retooled to Tame Complex Crime
Our condolence goes to the promising young constable who lost his life yesterday in a broad daylight robbery while escorting a Bullion Van with cash. May the God Lord fill the vacuum created in his family and grant him Peace.
It is also unfortunate, the presser from the Ghana Police Administration didn’t announce a bounty on the head of the perpetrators nor a message of condolences to the bereaved family. It’s an open secret that our society today has lost the passion to engage in pro-social volunteerism but anticipation for material and financial motivation or rewards. Hence the need to encourage individuals through all legitimate means to volunteer valuable information to these regrettable incidents (s).
The presser also failed to tell the time and duration the incident took place. The seeming increasing state of insecurity provokes the need for an elaborate account of events. However, we share with the police administration the pain and loss of one of their own.
We are aware that, escort duties for transportation of cash from financial institutions is charged, and we doubt whether it goes into the consolidated fund.
In our opinion, Conducting a forensic audit into that account will grant us an insight as to how monies in that account are disbursed and ensure its proper usage. Can that revenue be used to at least equip those engaged in cash transportation escort duties?
If we are to solve these issues of insecurity, we should stop paying lips service to unemployment concerns. Again, employment figures are only falsified and thrown out for better political rating and not born out of genuine commitment to address the challenges of human security, for which livelihood is a cardinal factor and a security threat, there would continue to be the occurrence of these incidents.
Besides that, we believe that the GPS needs to do more in other to draw parity with modern and innovative trends of taming crime.
This in our opinion includes a massive shakeup in the service. We think that senior officers on the contract must be disengaged. They have paid their dues, they must give way to fresh blood and ideas. Most of these officers are reengage not for their special expertise, but because they are loyalists to regimes. Their continued stay promotes apathy among “legitimate” servicing officers, because of mobility on the command hierarchy.
Remember, People would die with food in their stomachs than to die without food in their stomachs.
ILAPI
Community 2
Tema
Tel: 0244169361 / 024 170 6368
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