Police Management Board to combat crime inaugurated
An 11-member Police Management Board (POMAD) tasked to devise effective mechanisms to clamp down criminal activities within the Accra metropolis has been inaugurated.
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Chaired by the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr Christian Tetteh Yohonu, the board is also mandated to design strategies, programme and implement policies of the police administration to combat modern-day crimes and other security challenges within Accra.
At the inauguration ceremony in Accra yesterday, the Director-General of Administration at the Police Headquarters, Commissioner of Police (COP), Ms Rose Bio Atinga, said “as part of your mandate as a board, you will be expected to keep your focus on patrol as well as the community policing concept which have proven to be very effective approaches to crime prevention”.
“The need for us to prevent crime rather than wait till they are committed for us to investigate cannot be overemphasised. Ghanaians and the whole world expect us to perform and we dare not fail,” she said.
According to Ms Atinga, the rationale behind the inauguration of POMAD was in line with measures put in place to ensure that Regional Commanders received semi-autonomous status from the national headquarters with appropriate authority in matters of police operations, administration and budgeting.
Ms Atinga mentioned the enforcement of law and order in the region, collective management of human, material and financial resources allocated to the region as mandatory roles of the board.
She commended the leadership of the Accra Regional Police Command for instituting measures to reduce crime in the region.
The Accra Regional Police Commander, Mr Yohonu, assured that members of the board would intensify their effort and collectively work together in clamping down criminal activities in the region.
He said although criminals had over the past months employed modern methods of conducting their robbery attacks, including the use of motorbikes, the police in all the 32 districts in Accra had adopted effective ways to clamp down their plots.
That, Mr Yohonu said, had led to the arrest of many hardened criminals with most of them currently spending their jail sentence in various prisons in the country.