The Government has, since then 2017 procured for the Ghana Police Service some seven hundred and thirty-five (735) additional vehicles for operations.
In January 2017, the Police Service had a total of four hundred and ninety-two (492) serviceable cars.
The new vehicles procured by the Akufo-Addo administration included fifteen (15) operational buses, a feat unprecedented in the history of the Service.
According to President Nana Akufo-Addo, Three hundred and twenty (320) housing units are being constructed at National Police Training School to reduce the accommodation deficits of the Service.
The President has said Modern communication equipment, and fragmentation jackets have been procured and delivered to the Service to protect officers, and ensure effective policing.
Also, the Construction of Hangers at the Police Depot, Accra, for four (4) helicopters already procured for the Ghana Police Service, is ninety-nine per cent (99%) complete. An air-wing unit has been established by the Ghana Police Service, and six (6) pilots have been trained and passed out to man the wing.
A new K-9 Unit has been established with thirty (30) dogs and thirty (30) police officers.
The Criminal Investigations Department has been equipped with a digital forensics laboratory, and, for the first time in the history of the Department, crime officers are given a monthly allowance to support their investigations. We are retooling the CID Forensic Science lab; the CID building has also now become disability-friendly, and there is continuous training of CID officers.
Eighty-four (84) apartment units being constructed at Odorkor, in Accra, for the Immigration Service, are ninety-eight per cent (98%) complete, and their completion will help reduce the accommodation challenges faced by officers and men of the Immigration Service.
The government is also constructing an eight hundred (800) inmate capacity remand prison at Nsawam, which is sixty per cent (60%) complete. Its purpose is to reduce further overcrowding in prisons, as remand prisoners will now be kept separately from the convict population.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
