{"id":736873,"date":"2022-01-06T00:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/police-intelligence-and-professional-standards-head-office-in-a-sorry-state\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T00:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:39:21","slug":"police-intelligence-and-professional-standards-head-office-in-a-sorry-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/police-intelligence-and-professional-standards-head-office-in-a-sorry-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Intelligence and Professional Standards head office in a sorry state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  6 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/51342622.295.jpg\" alt=\"Establishing shot of the PIPS HQ\" title=\"Establishing shot of the PIPS HQ\" width=\"295\" height=\"149\" \/> <span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Establishing shot of the PIPS HQ<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">The Police Professional Standards Bureau is in a deplorable state as the structure has developed cracks, whiles a newly built multipurpose office structure remains uncommissioned<\/p>\n<p>A secretly filmed unit that sees to issues with police professionalism is rippled with a decaying structure.<\/p>\n<p>The structure has not seen any major rehabilitation in recent times as the wall paintings are peeling off.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators in the department speaking on conditions of anonymity lament the work under harsh conditions in the department as their tables and chairs are nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n<p>The officers also say there is only one toilet facility used by the whole unit including the director-general, staff and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The often unhygienic nature of the toilet facility officers tell 3 news forces them to use outside facilities.<\/p>\n<p>A newly-constructed multipurpose structure located at the Nima police, fully furnished has had its opening scheduled for November 1, 2021, stalled with no explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Information available to the 3news indicates the outgone director-general lobbied some private firms to furnish the new structure with air conditioners, tables and chairs for the new building that is yet to be occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Sources within the unit have lamented that decaying structures have affected the ability of officers to investigate cases before them in some instances.<\/p>\n<p>They have appealed to the hierarchy of the police to inaugurate the newly built structure for use.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mktX_bQmlvY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police Intelligence and Professional Standards head office in a sorry state\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mktX_bQmlvY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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