Director-General in Charge of Police Welfare,COP Maame Yaa Tiwaah Addo-Danquah has been appointed Chairperson of an 11 member Technical Committee to oversee the management of COVID-19 within the Police Service.
This comes in the wake of confirmed reports that about 7 police personnel testing positive of the virus in the Upper East Region.
This was revealed during the Season two edition of Alert with Adam Bonaa which streamed live on Facebook monitored by MyNewsGh.com.
According to her, the terms of reference of the Committee established by the Inspector General of Police Mr James Oppong-Boanuh include: the continuous education of personnel on COVID-19 pandemic, Provision of adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to frontline staff and any other appropriate persons , Monitoring of all personnel across the country for traces of infections, Establishment of isolation center for personnel and dependents v. Psychological counselling of staff both affected and infected, Fumigation and disinfection of police establishments and Any other related matter.
Other members of the group she revealed the show incude DCOP/Dr Samuel Otu-Nyarko, Epidemiologists (P/H), ACP/Very Rev. Frank D. Twum-Baah, Police Church, C/Supt/Mr Edwin Kofi Dey, Headquarters Estates, Supt/Mrs Sheilla K. Abayie-Buckman, Dir/PRO, Supt/Dr Frank Duodu, Physician, Police Hospital, DSP/Dr Edem Wormenor, Lab Scientist, P/Hospital, ASP/Mr Emmanuel Baba Asibilla, Disease Control (P/H), ASP/Mr Foster Sanctity Nanewotor, Psychologist (P/H), ASP/Ms Mary Mirekua Tandoh, Senior Nurse (P/H) and ASP/Mr Emmanuel Ato Gand, SO/Welfare.
According to verified police sources, the first batch of infections involved a policemen who was on escort duties to the Upper East Region while the other was also returning to his duty post in the same region after holidays faced same fate.
It has been confirmed that about 137 personnel from the Upper East Regional Police Command have so far been asked to self-isolate as their samples have been taken for testing at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) awaiting results.
Meanwhile, the IGP has directed personnel who were deployed during the lockdown in Greater Accra, Kumasi, Kasoa and Tema be tested for the virus.
Source:A1radioonline.com|101.1|Ghana
