Police Training  Recruits In Trouble

Ghana Police Service has announced its commitment and readiness to likely review the way it trains recruits after it found that six of its personnel were complicit in recent bullion van robberies in the country.

Speaking in an interview on Citi FM Breakfast Show today, the Director-General in charge of Police Public Affairs, DCOP Kwesi Ofori stated that plans were underway to adopt new strategies on the training of recruits to make sure it curtain such situations.

According to him, already the police administration is running a series of courses, adding that more than 2,000 of its police personnel have gone through training at the highway school and other training facilities.

He stressed the police administration was running these courses to make sure that the police administration turn things around.

DCOP Ofori also assured that the police service would also improve its monitoring of personnel.

“Police administration and its leadership have set up an effective internal machinery to police the police, to make sure bad cops are nabbed.”

Already the police administration announced the arrest of the four policemen on Tuesday. They will be arraigned later on Wednesday.

Another suspect believed to be a civilian was also arrested, while some other five civilian suspects have gone into hiding, according to the police.

The police in a statement also disclosed that a raid at Borteyman near Ashaiman led to the death of two other police officers during an exchange of gunshots.

The two officers who were killed are Constable Randolph Ansah and Lance Corporal Stephen Kwaku Nyame.

The two, according to the police, had earlier been arrested in connection with the bullion van robberies.

The bullion van attacks being investigated occurred at Kingsway, Baatsona, Jamestown, and North Kaneshie Industrial Area in the last year.