The Director General of Research, Planning and Transformation Directorate (RPTD) of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Dr Ernest Owusu, has urged police personnel to let their integrity come to bare in the discharge of their duties.
He also asked them to discharge their duties professionally by doing the right thing at the right time.
DCOP Dr Owusu made this call at the opening ceremony of a four-day training workshop, organized by the RPTD with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), a German political foundation, in the area of Human rights and Community engagement as we as Client Service delivery, in Accra, yesterday.
30 police personnel, from the Criminal Investigation Department and Legal and Prosecutions, Visibility and Community Policing from all 18 regions in the country are undergoing the training.
The training is to equip participants with the requisite skills and knowledge in police-public management, and human rights, to enhance professionalism and police-public relations.
DCOP Dr Owusu said: “in recent times, the Police Administration has come out with interventions and strategies to enhance personnel potential for effective service delivery to restore public trust.”
He also stated that the Police Administration has recently come out with Client Service delivery where they go round in briefing the personnel on what to do in the line of their duties.
“The GPS was operating in four thematic areas thus restoring the public image, commanding public respect, regaining public confidence and cementing police legitimacy,” he noted.
DCOP Dr Owusu said since October 2021, 300 police personnel have been trained in human rights issues and community engagement.
He urged the participants to be committed to learning from their facilitators so that after the training they will impart the knowledge acquired to their colleagues.
The topics discussed included police responsibilities and professionalism, critical roles of stakeholders in policing, integrity, attitudinal change, policing and the media, human rights in policing, and community policing.
The others were neighbourhood watch formation and activities, counselling, stress and mental health, law enforcement supervision and code of conducts and ethics.