Ghana’s Police service under the leadership of their new Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo-Dampare have introduced its Proactive Preventive Policing strategy, an operations strategy intended to reduce crime in the world 2nd largest cocoa producing country.
The operations which include the use of high-trained security dogs under leash have been strategically positioned across the country’s Capital for operational patrols spearhead by the service’s K-9 Unit.
According to an official statement from the service’s facebook handle, “this component of policing is aimed at increasing the visibility of personnel, improving intelligence gathering, tracking of contraband goods and improving upon other aspects of criminal investigations’’.
The statement further said plans are underway to extend this component of Police visibility to other regions. ’’We shall continue to pursue multiple Security and Visibility Modules to increase our interactions with the public and aggressively fight crime in our communities’, the statement further stated.
A member of the K-9 Unit of the Ghana Police service at a vantage patrol point.
The country’s former Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh was heavily criticized by the Ghanaian populace during his tenure as insecurity soared in the country. The IGP is reported to have said that, ‘’there is no society in the world where there is no crime. Even in the USA, UK and Sweden, where they, more or less have everything, they still have crime. The only place that doesn’t have crime is heaven and we are not in heaven.”
Meanwhile, it has become clear that the Ghanaian people have expressed confidence in the youngest Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo-Dampare who has assured the populace of his commitment of making the country safe.
