The Interior Ministry has hinted plans to roll out a drastic transformation of the Ghana Police Service.
According to the Ministry it is ready to recruit 8000 new officers this year adding that the move will give the service a holistic facelift which includes the provision of logistics.
“The Transformation Agenda of the Police is not just building Police Stations, so part of it has to do with establishing more points which has officers,” he said.
He said: “It also means equipping the Police, that is part of the transformation and then it means, seeking the welfare of the Police because most of the Police that you see, where do they sleep? What are the conditions of service? Some of you complain that some of them get killed in the line of duty, what are we doing for them.”
He also noted that the concept of community policing as an avenue of complementing the service to be more effective with their duties.
source:a1radioonline.com/Ghana
