The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the Police Service will take supply of two (2) gazelle mild assault helicopters and one (1) Airbus 350 helicopter, in November this 12 months, to reinforce its work.
According to President Akufo-Addo, hangars for the helicopters, situated on the National Police Training School, have been accomplished, and 6 (6) officers, who will fly these helicopters, have accomplished their coaching in South Africa.
The President made this recognized on Friday, 1st October 2021, when he delivered a speech on the commencement ceremony of the fiftieth Cadet Officers’ Course, on the Police Training Academy, at Tesano, Accra.
Speaking on the occasion, the President famous that Government, in recognition of the difficulties and risks confronting police personnel within the discharge of their duties, stays dedicated to resourcing the Service, by the supply of satisfactory personnel and logistics to allow them ship on their mandate.
“To this end, since I came to office in January 2017, a total of five hundred and sixty-eight (568) vehicles, including fifteen (15) operational buses, have been presented by Government to the Service, a feat unprecedented in its history,” he mentioned.
Apart from the present Formed Police Unit (FPU) in Accra, President Akufo-Addo revealed that an extra twenty-two (22) mild armoured automobiles have been procured to be used by the FPUs to be established in November within the Northern, Upper East and Ashanti Regions.
In the subsequent one-and-half years, FPUs will probably be established within the remaining areas that do not need FPUs.
“Two hundred (200) motorbikes have also been distributed to members of the Community Policing initiative to boost the presence of the police in our communities. Modern communication equipment and four thousand, five hundred (4,500) fragmentation jackets have been procured and delivered to the Service to protect officers, and help ensure effective policing,” President Akufo-Addo mentioned.
He continued, “At the beginning of my mandate, in 2017, there were eight hundred (800) CCTV installations in the country for surveillance. At the end of my first term, the figure had gone up to six thousand, five hundred (6,500), and, by the end of the year, another three thousand, five hundred (3,500) would have been added, making a total of almost eleven thousand (11,000) in the country.”
Government, the President added, has strengthened the cybercrime-fighting capabilities of the Service, by means of the establishing of a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Centre on the National Communications Authority (NCA).
Towards defending the nation’s maritime waters, and its offshore oil and gasoline installations, the President revealed that the Ministry of the Interior has procured three (3) Alligator Silver boats in fulfilment of the pledge he made to broaden and useful resource the Marine Police, with a purpose to assist them work with the Ghana Navy.
In addition to retooling the forensics lab of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), he mentioned that, for the primary time within the historical past of the Department, crime officers are given a month-to-month allowance to assist their investigations.
“On addressing the housing needs of the Service, the construction of three hundred and twenty (320) housing units at the National Police Training School is at an advanced stage of completion. Work is ongoing on the construction of a barracks at Kwabenya, to replace the one adjacent to the DVLA at 37, which is not fit for purpose. A new mechanical workshop for the Service is also being constructed at Bohye, near Haatso,” he added.
In addition to the yearly increments of salaries for all police personnel, Government, he mentioned, has positioned them, like the opposite members of the safety companies, beneath the CAP 30 pension scheme.
“Clearance has been given for the Police Service to recruit some five thousand (5,000) more personnel to augment the manpower base of the Service, in a bid to meet the recommended UN police-civilian ratio of one-to-five hundred (1:500). Prior to this, a total of four thousand (4,000) persons were recruited into the Police Service from 2018 to 2020,” he added.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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