By Dennis Osei Gyamfi, GNA
Asutsuare, Dec 24, GNA - A group of 38 Custom Officer have been trained in counter insurgency teamwork and confidence building and now form the pioneers of the new Counter Terror Unit within the Preventive/Enforcement Department of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
The group of Officers, with only one female, were taken through three weeks of training in subjects such as weapon training, obstacle crossing, navigation, voice procedure, map reading, identification of IEDs, cordon and search at the 64 Infantry Regiment Training Camp at Asutsuare.
Speaking on behalf of the Commissioner of the GRA at the closing ceremony for the training, Mr Seidu Yakubu, a Deputy Commissioner, Preventive, said the dynamics of International Relations were fast changing and it was necessary for Customs to keep up with the changes.
“Customs being the institution charged with the task of ensuring that cross-border flow of goods, people and means of conveyance complied with National and International laws, it was only prudent to be abreast with the dynamics of the time in the twenty-first century by keeping pace with the escalating transnational organised crime, terrorism, extremisms, money laundering and any other emerging threats that threatens the supply chain system and the global inter-modal transport system peace time,” he said.
Mr Yakubu said Customs needed to adopt modern and workable tools to concentrate its control and enforcement activities to effectively disrupt illicit cross-border trade that posed the highest threat, whilst the same time facilitating legitimate trade that conforms to safety, peace, security and territorial integrity.
He congratulated the trained Officers for their endurance and urged them to use their expertise to help in combating any transnational organised crime in peace time to guarantee peace, safety and security.
He thanked Lieutenant Colonel Fiifi Deegbe, Commanding Officer of the 64 Infantry Regiment and his lieutenants and instructors for impacting to the participants the requisite skills to keep transnational organised crime at bay.
“Fighting terrorism, extremism and other organised crime is no longer a reserve of any one institution; it is a collaborative effort among security institutions as shown by your willingness to put your resources and manpower at our disposal to train our men for the maintenance of Peace, Security and territorial integrity,” he said.
He called on all security institutions to collaborate in a consented effort in achieving economic development in Peace safety and Security.
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