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The Ghana Police Service has revived its Service Instructions and a communication strategy in line with its transformation agenda.

The Service Instructions serve as the standard operating procedures that guide all operations of the police, ensure professionalism and provide key procedural information and directions to ensure effective prosecutions.

For the first time, the police administration has added the public education and communication strategy to enhance communication with internal and external stakeholders of the service and ensure greater respect for human rights.

The two documents were developed with the support of the European Union (EU) under its Anti-Corruption, Rule of Law and Accountability Programme (ARAP).

Old Service Instructions

Launching the two documents, the Minister of the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, said the Service Instructions which were developed for the then Gold Coast Constabulary which later became the Ghana Police Force and subsequently the Ghana Police Service, had remained the same since 1957.

He said under the direction and vision of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government, it would continue to play its constitutional role of equipping and maintaining the Police Service to enable it to perform its legitimate duty of maintaining law and order. 

Professionalism 

For his part, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr David Asante-Apeatu, said the two documents would enhance police accountability, transparency, and professionalism in line with international standards.

Additionally, he said, it would promote respect for human rights and improve police-public engagement.

The Service Instructions, he pointed out, would ensure that police officers acted in a professional manner at all times in spite of the hazards they were exposed to in the exercise of their duties.