Ghana Police Meets International Counterparts

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, and some members of the Ghana Police Service Management Board (POMAB), have interacted with International Liaison Officers and security experts from embassies and high commissions in Ghana.

The meeting was to further strengthen cooperation in fighting crime in the country and abroad, while sharing new strategies and information.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr David Asante-Apeatu said criminal networks were becoming organized, resourced and sophisticated, which calls for sustained collaboration among law enforcement agencies.

He said criminal activities have no regional or national boundaries and have become well-coordinated and evasive hence, the need to strengthen coordination to confront these threats.

He reiterated that the police administration had rolled out a transformation agenda of becoming a world class organization capable of delivering a planned, democratic, protective and peaceful service that meets international standards to modernize its operation and put it ahead of criminals.

“It is therefore important for the police administration to interact with representatives of nations with some of the best police organizations in the world,” the IGP underscored.

Mr Asante-Apeatu averred that police officers all over the world have a responsibility of maintaining law and order.

He also announced that the police administration, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in particular, had received a lot of cooporation and collaboration from international law enforcement agents over the years; and in view of that, it had established a diplomatic support directorate led by DCOP Samuel Monney, to focus on the security needs of the various embassies.

The Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department, DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, who spearheaded the organization of the event, thanked the IGP and the security experts for turning up in their numbers for the meeting.

She said it was refreshing to note that in spite of the fact that they have a formal way of getting information from their partners, sometimes it becomes so necessary to talk to them in an informal way to get whatever one may need in the course of investigation.

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By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey