IGP Weeps Over Cash
THE INSPECTOR General of Police (IGP), Paul Quaye, is lamenting that budgetary constraint is preventing his outfit from running training courses to improve the knowledge and expertise of police personnel in the country.
Describing training as the cornerstone of every success, he noted that it was his heart-most desire to see police personnel build on their capacity continually so as to put them on top of their task.
However, he lamented that lack of funds was serving as the main stumbling block to the Police Administration, with regard to updating the knowledge and skills of its members.
This was contained in a speech read on behalf of the IGP by the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Patrick Timbillah, at the closing of Basic and Advanced Programme for Police/Attorney General Prosecutors in Kumasi.
The five-day course, sponsored by the British High Commission in Ghana, was attended by 45 police officers drawn from the northern sector of the country.
The IGP expressed happiness and commended the programme initiators for a good job done, stressing trainings of such nature was the surest way to equip the police to perform their constitutional duties of ensuring law and order perfectly.
Mr. Quaye deplored again that inadequate funds on the part of the Attorney General's (AG) Department was also preventing the AG to come out with educative courses for police prosecutors to help improve their knowledge in prosecutions of cases in courts.
This unfortunate scenario, he indicated, usually has adverse effects on the performance of police prosecutors whenever they go to the court to prosecute cases, reiterating the importance of running educative courses such as this for police prosecutors.
The participants of the course, who were awarded certificates upon completion, were schooled in courses such as prosecution of offences, prosecuting firmly, accurately and swiftly among others.
Criminals, the IGP opined, now commit crime with sophisticated weapons and machinery, hence the strongest need for the police to “acquire the necessary skills via education to deal with criminal activities properly.”
In his remarks, Roger J. Coventry, on behalf of the British High Commissioner to Ghana, said criminal activities such as drug trafficking was a worldwide problem which needs the collaborative effort of all and sundry to bring to a halt.
Organizing the educative programme for police personnel in Ghana, he noted, was part of the British government's valuable efforts and contributions to help eradicate crime across the globe.