Reflection of Police Service in corruption index report not realistic
The Police Administration has stated that the 2012 report of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (G.I.I) which sought to put the Police Service on top of the corruption index does not seem to reflect the reality.
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The Police Service has come a long way from the days when perception of corruption in the service was rife and the attitudes of a few personnel cannot be used to obliterate the good, performance of the overwhelming majority, a statement signed by the Director of the Police Public Relations Directorate, DSP Cephas Arthur and issued in Accra indicated.
It said that presently confidence in the service was at all time high, due to the service’s steady rise in professionalism.
Furthermore the Police administration has put measures in place to stem the problem of unprofessionalism occasionally displayed by some personnel in recent times.
Some of these measures are the introduction of the Image Cleansing Campaign to rid the service of miscreants whose conduct bring the service into disrepute, the installation of surveillance cameras on the roads to check extortion by personnel of the service and the setting up of the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau (PIPS), empowered to investigate and punish police officers who misconduct themselves in the course of performing their duties.
According to the statement these measures have yielded a huge dividend, thereby ameliorating any perception of corruption in the Service.
“It is therefore unfortunate that anybody would rate the Police Service in such a bad light. It is the belief of the Service that if a more effective and qualitative method were used the Police would have performed better than the report portrayed them,” the statement added.
It said however that the service would take a leaf from the report, and continue to improve upon its performance till it attained the status so desired.
