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Mr Fosu-Ackaah dancing with Mrs Mary Tobbin Osei, a senior consultant at Kanko Associates, and some other dignitaries at the get-together
Mr Fosu-Ackaah dancing with Mrs Mary Tobbin Osei, a senior consultant at Kanko Associates, and some other dignitaries at the get-together

‘Create special fund to resource security services’

President of the Full Gospel Church International, Right Reverend Samuel N. Mensah, has called upon the government to create a special fund to resource the security services in Ghana to increase their overall performance.

The fund, according to him, should be used to provide the necessary logistics for the security services in Ghana to better equip them to carry out their duties.

Rt Rev. Mensah was speaking in Accra as the special guest at the first end-of-year get-together, otherwise called WASSA, of the Police Academy of the Ghana Police Service last Saturday.

The occasion was also used by the academy to take stock of the past year and review its strategies to improve its performance this year.

The Police Academy, established in 1959, is currently the second highest institution of learning after the Ghana Police Command and Staff College and has produced leaders for the Police Service over the years.

Comparing the Security Fund to the GETFund for the educational sector, Rt Rev. Mensah said the latter fund, which would provide a structured extra financial injection into the various security services, should be used to resource, especially, the  Police Service.

He said the fund could be used for the provision of better equipment and smarter Information and Communications Technology (ICT) facilities that would help the police carry out their mandate.

The provision of ICT facilities, he said, would enable the police to carry out criminal investigations using high tech and that could lead to a drastic drop in crime.

“The world has progressed technologically and criminals are taking advantage of the sophisticated technology to outwit the police. But the police must be ahead of the criminals in terms of the use of technology,” he said.

WASSA

The Commandant of the academy, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr Anderson Fosu-Ackaah, said the get-together had become a regular feature on the calendar of the Ghana Police Service, which had been providing the platform for officers and men of the service to gather to interact and share experiences.

In 2016, he said, the Police Academy, in collaboration with the Police Administration, organised courses for some selected senior police officers on election security and crowd control management for the 2016 general election.

The academy, Mr Fosu-Ackaah said, served as the joint operational command centre for the Greater Accra Regional Command during the 2016 general elections.

 

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