{"id":596399,"date":"2019-03-05T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"<br><p>IGP David Asante Apeatu is giving his testimony before the Short Commission.<\/p><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n<!-- <div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div> -->\n<!--"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:42:55","slug":"igp-admits-victimisation-exists-in-police-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/05\/igp-admits-victimisation-exists-in-police-service\/","title":{"rendered":"IGP admits victimisation exists in Police Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>IGP David Asante Apeatu is giving his testimony before the Short Commission.<\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><br \/>\n<!-- \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!-- 8th March (2wks) --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/glauc-new.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has admitted before the Short Commission that victimisation exists in the Ghana Police Service.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He further affirmed that such victimisations do manifest themselves in irregular transfers, delayed promotions among others. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Using himself as an example, he told the Commission Tuesday that he has personally been a victim of such victimisation leading him to stay on his rank as Deputy Commissioner of Police for ten years.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4yUULoWFhOE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr. David Asante Apeatu\u2019s claims to the Short Commission, which is investigating the violence that marred the 31\u00a0January by-elections at Ayawaso West Wuogon, was in response to the flourishing menace of vigilantism which the police is struggling to deal with for fear of being victimized. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The menace of vigilantism has been traced to political parties. Admissions before the Short probe indicate that men are hired by political parties during elections to protect their interest. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Related:\u00a0<\/span>Joy News Editor gives testimony at Short Commission<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">According to the analyst, as long as the IGP is appointed by the president,\u00a0the Police Council and other security agencies are constituted by political authorities and police officers who assert their influence will become victims. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"260px\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=uiNh9yEQiqFkSt7CY\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">But the IGP is urging men in the service not to be daunted by the situation. According to him, once a man is in uniform \u201cyou have work to do. If you complain the song in you may not come out.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He has however urged persons who become victims in the course of executing their professional duties to seek redress at the Police Council or even better, to go to court (even the Supreme Court) to fight their case. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">More soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1559506714349564\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGP David Asante Apeatu is giving his testimony before the Short Commission. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has admitted before the Short Commission that victimisation exists in the Ghana Police Service.\u00a0 He further affirmed that such victimisations do manifest themselves in irregular transfers, delayed promotions among others. Using himself as an example, he told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IGP admits victimisation exists in Police Service - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/05\/igp-admits-victimisation-exists-in-police-service\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"IGP admits victimisation exists in Police Service - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"IGP David Asante Apeatu is giving his testimony before the Short Commission. 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