Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has said miscreants within the Ghana Police Service will be smoked out in the coming days.
The purge, he said, is part of an on-going campaign to redeem the battered image of the police.
In the past few weeks, there have been stories of police officers renting out their guns to armed robbers or engaging in robberies or facilitating and benefiting in crime in one way or the other.
Speaking to Class news on the sidelines of the inauguration of a new police station and barracks at the Millennium City, Kasoa, by the Church of Pentecost, Mr Asante-Apeatu said the service is hoping to reverse the trend by eliminating all bad nuts within its fold.
He said: “We’re putting measures in place and all those miscreants within the police service, we’re going to fish them out, but let me say that it is a human institution and I don’t think we all expect every police officer to be above board. We have some officers with some criminal tendencies amongst us but these are the bad nuts that gradually we are fishing out.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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The IGP's disclosure is an honest assertion and going forward I pray they are able to put in measures to do thorough vetting to rid the Service of these miscreants. To me, one of the ways the Police get these miscreants is the political influences that make them accept to recruit persons who do not have any love for policing into the system. Criminals will always be in the Police but the manner in which some of these criminals behave within the service is just too reprehensible. Has they Police abandoned background checks on recruits?
We know that so no news. I thought the new thing you were going to tell us is that you have identified a modality to start weeding them out and you have already started with some success! Who needs reminding that the police force is the most corrupt public institution in Ghana, a title they have defended effortlessly over the years? Who needs reminding that some are hard-core armed robbers who either participate in or relay intelligence to armed robbers for successful operations? Who needs reminding that some are rapists and conmen afflicting pain on unsuspecting victims? And who can deny that in one way or the other he/she has not been a victim of police extortion on the high way? So what new thing do you have to add to the already long list of attributes which over qualifies them as rogues? Perhaps it is to tell us that they are now into the business of renting out their guns for extra cash to armed robbers. And you think we don't know that?