The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) is to expand its newly created Rapid Response and Counter-Terrorism Unit (RRCTU) to all sixteen regions in Ghana.
The Unit was established in 2019 to ensure that Ghana’s porous borders are well secured to prevent transnational crimes and infiltration by terrorists and extremists.
Speaking during a pass out parade for two hundred and seventy-six (276)Security personnel drawn from Police, Immigration and the Ghana Ambulance Service and training on ways to combat terrorists and extremists activities at the Counter-Terrorism and Concentration Camp located in Huhunya in the Eastern Region, the Head of Border Management at the GIS, Commissioner of Immigration(COI), Mr. Isaac Owusu Mensah said the Service will extend the formation of the Rapid Response and Counter-Terrorism Unit to all Regional commands of the service.
Given this, he said, some 500 Immigration Personnel are also to be trained by the end of August in this regard.
“The confidence that Ghana Immigration Service has in this kind of training has opened up further discussions for the training of more personnel to form the Rapid Response and Counter-Terrorism Unit at the Regional Commands throughout the country. This trained personnel will also augment border patrol duties at the various sectors as you may know already Ghana Immigration Service stands as the lead agency in our country border security architecture.”
He added “in this regard, a training program has been scheduled to roll out from 29th of August 2020 for about 500 officers and men of the Ghana Immigration Service from across the regions. It is expected that these numbers will subsequently be doubled in meeting the dynamics and demands of the service.”
Executive Director of National Ambulance Service Professor Ahmed Nuhu Zakaria on his part appealed that the service is equipped with the necessary security accouterments to enable it to rise to the occasion in case of any national security emergency.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
