{"id":462700,"date":"2018-02-08T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/police-to-get-helicopters-and-drones-to-fight-crime\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:42:31","slug":"police-to-get-helicopters-and-drones-to-fight-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/police-to-get-helicopters-and-drones-to-fight-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Police to get helicopters and drones to fight crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  8 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/59204300.295.jpg\" alt=\"The Ghana Police Service\" title=\"The Ghana Police Service\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Akufo-Addo pledged his government\u2019s commitment to protect the citizenry from miscreants<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518104551_679_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Akufo-Addo has announced plans to purchase drones and helicopters to assist the police crime in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This, he indicated is part of plans to resource the police to ensure law and order in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Parliament in his second State of the Nations Address, President Akufo-Addo also revealed, the crime laboratories will be modernized, and properly equipped to provide the necessary support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police intelligence unit will also be strengthened. The perennial problems associated with police accommodation will be tackled, and a compensation package introduced to cover officers in their line of duty. We will give the Police the resources they need to do their job\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo pledged his government\u2019s commitment to protect the citizenry from miscreants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall not allow miscreants of any sort to terrorize our population; and I promise that there will be no hiding place for criminals\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The President maintained that, the law enforcement agencies will crack down very hard on all those who would disturb the peace of our nation.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said the police as the prosecution services and the judiciary owe it to all of us to make us feel and be safe. 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This, he indicated is part of plans to resource the police to ensure law and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}