The Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare will today August 11, 2022, deliver a lecture on policing at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.
The Lecture is being organized by the Faculty of Social Science.
Dr. George Akuffo Dampare will be speaking on the theme ‘The changing face of policing in Ghana: expectations and the role of the university community”.
Dr. Dampare is expected to take his audience through the past, present, and future of the Police service.
He will also speak on the various initiatives taken by his predecessors in improving security in the country.
The IGP will share his vision for the Police Service and his expectation of the public with the audience.
The lecture which is the first of its kind by an IGP is at the invitation of the University and is scheduled to take place at 4:00 pm today.
Since the IGP took office last year, he has introduced reforms to make the Ghana Police Service a world-class institution.
The Director General of Administration, Ghana Police Service COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, recently said the Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has introduced a paradigm shift in recruit training modules and curriculum of the Police administration.
He said emerging crimes, terrorism, cyber-related crimes, new policing challenges, and changes in the modus operandi of criminals are some of the issues confronting the service.
COP Yohuno said the IGP has therefore standardized recruit training modules and restructured recruit training activities with expanded improved facilities focusing on field training with practical attachment to gain field experience under close supervision of cadet officers.
“Hitherto, the emphasis was mainly on the enhancement of recruits knowledge on the laws they are expected to enforce when they pass out. But now, equal emphasis is placed on field training activities such as riding, driving, swimming, crowd control, incident, and disaster management, crime scene management, traffic management, radio communication, intelligence gathering, community-based patrols, charge office management, access control, arrest and search procedures, use of force procedures, human rights, clients care and professional police ethics, tactical progression, weapon handling, and high-risk operation,” COP Tetteh Yohuno announced.
COP Yohuno whilst commending GIZ for sponsoring the recruit training curriculum reforms, also acknowledged West Africa Program to Combat AIDS and STI (WAPCAS) for partnering with the Police administration to develop an e-learning platform.
COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno said this in Koforidua while addressing the passing out parade of 416 Police recruits made up of 50 under cadets from the Koforidua Police training school.
He stressed that the graduands were “exposed to practical policing at the training school, made to perform one month field (practical) duties, snap checks, public order management, and patrol duties in various communities, some were also attached to the criminal investigation Department (CID) and the charge offices to be abreast with what awaits them”.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
