The Public Relations Officer of the Upper East Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police(ASP), David Fianko Okyere says, police recruits who tested positive of the coronavirus at the Pwalugu police training school have fully recovered and have resumed their six months training to become police officers.
It could be recalled that, in June 2020, 215 Police recruits at the Pwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region were reported to have contracted the novel coronavirus bringing the training of recruits to a halt.
Speaking on A1 Radio’s Reporters visit on July 17, 2020, ASP. Fianko Okyere disclosed that, all the affected recruits’ having recovered from COVID-19 have begun training.
“On the advent of COVID- 19 as directed by the President to all schools including tertiary students were asked to stay home until such a time that, they were asked to go back to the schools. So, as the case of the Ghana Police Service Recruits and that of Police Training School here in Bolgatanga.
So, when they (recruits) went home and came back on campus as usual, all their samples were taken and as I speak to you, all of them have recovered and they are going on with their lectures. They are on the training school campus undergoing their studies to become police officers”.
He, however, called on the public to stop stigmatizing people who are victims of COVID-19 and rather show them compassion.
ASP Okyere, added that, though the pandemic has negatively affected security agencies, the police academy has put up measures aimed at protecting all workers and the recovered recruits.
“The police administration set up COVID-19 committee to ensure that all personnel including our stakeholders were attended to including suspects who are in our cells; are protected, so when they contract the disease they don’t infect others.
So, isolation centers were put in place at the academy as well to make available those who contracted the virus or tested positive can get treatment. So, that is how we were able to manage them. You know we have a clinic, and as well we collaborated with the health authority of COVID- 19 team and they have been assisting us reasoned we have all of them being recovered as I speak to you now”.
Source:|A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Frederick Yinbil|Ghana
