The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has organised a three-week training course for 2,458 Constables who are due for promotion, with a call on them to study hard to pass the exam and gain promotion.
According to the Police Administration, participants who will fail their examination would not be promoted until that bridge had been crossed.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, addressing the participants at the opening ceremony of the promotion course for Constables in Accra yesterday, said the training programme was being run concurrently across the country.
He said a total of 11,854 personnel of various ranks, who are due for promotion would be trained in batches from June to October.
Mr Boanuh indicated that the training for the promotion forms part of the Police Administration strategy to build capacity of its personnel, in response to turning the Ghana Police Service around to become one of the best in the world.
In line with this ambition, the IGP said: “the attainment of this vision can only be possible when the capacity of personnel of the Service is enhanced in line with International Standards and Best Practices.”
Mr Boanuh added that the Police Service’s Training and Curriculum Review Committee, which has been working over the last two years, was mandated to review the training curricula of modules, contents, infrastructural capacity and delivery methodologies of all its training institutions in the country.
He said one of the Committee’s footprints is the transformation that had occurred at the Police Academy, which now bears a new status of tertiary institution and affiliated to the Cape Coast University.
Similarly, he said the Police Administration had granted 489 personnel the opportunity to pursue further studies both in Ghana and abroad.
“As part of initiatives to build the capacity of personal through in-service training, several specialised courses including but limited to high Risk Operation & Survival Training and Detective Training have been organised for 863 police officers across the country from January to June.
“Within the same period and in the framework of institutional collaboration, 619 officers from other law enforcement agencies, namely the Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Ambulance Service and Anti-Violence and Anti-Violence Advocacy Youth have benefitted from other specialised trainings from the GPS,” he said.
According to him, these trainings have been necessitated by how transnational crimes in recent years had become complicated, therefore, needed the security agencies to up their game.
Based on the changing trends of crime, the IGP urged the participants to take opportunity of the training to broaden their horizon on contemporary law enforcement strategies, police administrative procedures and regulation to adequately prepare themselves for the tasks ahead.
The Service Director of Human Resource, Commission of Police (COP) Mr Patrick Atampugre Akolgo explained that this year’s promotional training course is being done in ad hoc basis, due to numerous complaints that occasioned previous ones.
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