Need to support security agencies to perform – DCOP Andoh-Kwoffie

Koforidua, July 4, GNA - Eastern Regional Police Commander, Deputy

Commissioner of Police Stephen Andoh-Kwoffie has called for the

establishment of a security fund to improve facilities for police and other security

agencies.
He explained that the fund was necessary because the annual budgetary

allocation for the agencies could not solve all their problems and stressed the

need for more effective mobilization and implementation of the talk tax on mobile

phones to use a percentage as sources for the fund.

DCOP Andoh-Kwoffie made the call when Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo,

Eastern Regional Minister, presented some mattresses and blankets to police

personnel sleeping under staircases at the Eastern Regional Police Headquarters

in Koforidua.
The presentation was in reaction to a Ghana News Agency (GNA) report that

the police personnel who had been transferred to the Region were sleeping under

the staircase at the regional headquarters for lack of accommodation.

He noted that the Ghana Education Fund (GETFUND) was established to

help improve educational facilities in the country and the fund could also be

established to improve facilities for the security agencies.

DCOP Andoh-Kwoffie pointed out those problems of the Ghana Police

Service included accommodation, infrastructure, vehicles and other logistics that

required a fund with constant inflows to ensure effective policing and better

conditions for the other security agencies.
According to DCOP Andoh-Kwoffie former Director-General of Finance and

Administration of Ghana Police Service, the budgetary allocation was not

enough to provide for their needs therefore there was the need for government to

consider other sources of revenue for the police.
He noted that with the use of mobile phones by many Ghanaians it would not

be difficult to generate enough revenue for the fund for the police, adding “the

occasional support from organizations and philanthropist were not enough to

solve problems facing the Ghana Police Service and other security agencies in

the country.”
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the presentation was an interim measure while efforts

were made to improve their accommodation problems.
He pledged Government's commitment to provide better facilities and

conditions of service for the police and urged them to be patient.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said despite the problems of the police, an Eastern

Regional Security Committee (REGSEC) report revealed that, crime rate was on

the decline in the Region and commended the police for their vigilance and

professionalism even in the face of constraints.
He said it was necessary for Government to institute a fund to improve the

facilities for the police and other security agencies since budgetary allocation

alone could not help improve their conditions with regard to the deplorable state

of police barracks and other structures in the Region.

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