The Vice President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, on Tuesday announced that Government would increase the manpower of the Ghana Police Service by an additional 16,000 personnel.<\/p>\n
He said Government was also on the verge of procuring major
equipment for the Police to help them carry out their duties
effectively.<\/p>\n
Mr Mahama said \u201cIf we increase the manpower of the Police and
they do not have the necessary equipment to work, it would be
useless,\u201d at the inauguration of the National Headquarters of the
Community Policing Unit (CPU) in Accra.<\/p>\n
The CPU of the Ghana Police Service was established in 2003 with
the aim of implementing techniques of handling crime through community
participation in preventing, detecting and reducing crime as well as
the fear within the communities.<\/p>\n
Work on the new office complex, which has modern equipment, was
facilitated by the British High Commission with money and services
provided by the Bank of Ghana, MTN, Virgin Airlines, G45 Security
Services Limited and Interplast Limited.<\/p>\n
Mr Mahama also announced that the Government would provide the
Police with new bulletproof vests and finger print equipment and
refurbish the Police Ballistic laboratory and establish a DNA
laboratory to help fight crime.<\/p>\n
He said Government was committed to ensuring that all the 700
Police stations across the country were provided with the necessary
equipment to help them fight crime.<\/p>\n
The Vice President said: \u201cNo matter how well resourced the Police
are, without the community\u2019s support they cannot achieve their
objectives\u201d and cautioned the public against lynching suspected
criminals.<\/p>\n
He said the laws of Ghana presume every person to be innocent
until proven guilty. Mr Mahama said \u201cIf we arrest people we suspect to be criminals we must hand them over to the Police for them to deal with the issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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