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A Criminologist, Professor Ken Attafuah, has advised the Ghana Police Service and the Inspector General of Police for that matter to conduct an introspection exercise to help cleanse the service and its image. Prof. Attafuah also dismissed calls for the Police Service to conduct its own investigations into the cocaine-turned-baking soda saga. The call by the legal luminary comes on the back of two reports by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the committee set up by the Chief Justice Mrs. Georgina Wood to investigate the cocaine swap issue. Both reports have exonerated the country�s judiciary, incriminating the police service with the BNI�s report naming two top police officials at the Criminal Investigations Department as the key persons to answer questions surrounding the cocaine swap. According to Professor Attafuah, �I would encourage and support the IGP wanting to do further introspection within the Ghana Police Service, wanting to scrutinise procedures and also doing an audit of performance and doing job rotation and appropriate transfers, retooling the Ghana Police Service, ensuring that officers do not stay at particular posts for too long �� �I would wish to see the IGP carry on that kind of internal, broad comprehensive review of administrative and investigative procedures in order to ensure that we have a situation where officers know that they are being monitored because people do what you expect, not what you expect necessarily,� he added. The Ghana Police Service is, however, scheduled to hold a press conference later this morning to address issues which most people believe would center on the cocaine swap story.