A TWO-WEEK training course to prepare police personnel to manage public order and deal with any security challenges in the run-up to the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections opened in Accra on Monday.
The course, which is being organized by the Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the British High Commission, is also designed to update the knowledge of selected police personnel and sharpen their skills.
In an address, the Director General In charge of Operations, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr John Kudalor, said because of globalization, countries had become closer thus making cross-border crimes easy to commit.
He said there was, therefore, the need to collaborate with others to fight the canker hence the collaboration between the police and British who were experts in that field.
He said, over the years, the British government had assisted the Ghana Police Service in diverse ways to strengthen their capacity to discharge their duties effectively and adopt the best practices.
Mr Kudalor mentioned the management of critical incidents, command structure and a number of police modules about how to deal with issues as some of the topics being studied on the course.
He said even though the police and other security agencies were at the forefront of combating crime, there was the need for the public to also collaborate by giving information to their duties.
For his part, the Deputy British High Commissioner in Accra Mr Mathew Johnson, said the programme, which was funded by the UK government, demonstrated the commitment of Britain to build the capacity of the Ghana Police Service.
Mr Johnson said the challenges which could arise during the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections informed the Ghana Police Service on organizing the training course.
�In those situations you need to judge whether individuals are exercising their legitimate right to free assembly, to demonstrate or rally for one or other cause be it political or any other or whether a large number of people gathered in the same place simply presents a public order or public safety challenge,� he said.
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