Police Admin replenishes personnel accoutrements
The Police Administration has commenced its periodic administrative exercise of replenishing the clothing and other accoutrements of personnel of the service.
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A statement signed by the Director-General of the Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Rev. David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, said the nationwide exercise involved the distribution of items such as uniforms, raincoats, berets, combat belts, whistles, senior officer zip boots, and boots for the rank and file.
It said currently, the teams formed to undertake the exercise were touring all police commands across the country to ensure that the job was effectively done.
“Firm directives have been issued to the distributing teams to follow the laid down processes to ensure that each and every police officer is duly served, and the requisite entries made to that effect,” it said.
Worrying phenomenon
The statement issued in Accra yesterday, said the Police Administration had observed a worrying phenomenon of some police accoutrement, particularly uniforms, falling into the hands of some unauthorised persons and organisations, namely private security companies, individual security guards and others.
It said it was an offence for a person or group of persons other than police officers to use or be in possession of any police accoutrement. Possession of any police accoutrement contravenes Section 28 [1] of the Police Service Act, 1970 [Act 350], which stipulates that:
A person who is not a police officer who possesses an article which is part of the clothing, accoutrements or equipment supplied to a police officer and who is not able to satisfactorily account for the possession of it, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or to both the fine and the imprisonment.
The same Act also outlaws the use of the said items and states that a person who possesses, wears or uses an article so closely resembling a part of the uniform of a police officer as to be likely to deceive, commits a misdemeanour.
The statement cautioned that anyone caught in breach of the Act would, therefore, be arrested and prosecuted.