[ 2019-03-23 ]

Ghana Police Service needs more training and education - Kofi Abotsi
Former Dean of the Faculty of Law of GIMPA and
private legal practitioner, Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi
says Police officers need more training and
education to make them effective and
professional.

Mr Abotsi was speaking on the back of the recent
Police brutalities with the latest being the
assault of 3 Ghanaian Times journalist.

This has caused a public outrage as many Ghanaians
have descended heavily on the Police personnel
involved describing their acts as unprofessional.

This Mr Abotsi believes the lack of training and
education is accounting for the unprofessional
conduct of some Police personnel.

"Many police officers haven't been trained in the
act of arrest, I used to teach the police and
surprisingly many of them haven't read the
criminal act."

"A personnel is undergoes training at the Training
school, he comes out and 5-7 years all he learnt
is gone, I think what they need is enough training
and retraining," he spoke on NewsFile on Joy FM.

The Police Service has since interdicted three of
its officers who assaulted some Ghanaian Times
Journalists in Accra.

Another incident last week saw two civilians
assaulting a police officer, eyewitnesses say even
though the conduct of the civilians are to be
condemned the police officer acted in an
unprofessional manner.

Source - primenewsghana

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