Ama Ata Aidoo, Your End Has Come
This week I wanted to write about the tidal waves sweeping along the coastal regions of Ghana from Keta to Biriwa; destroying canoes, outboard motors and in some cases, destroying houses. I...
Tag: Ghana police service
Early Identification of Flashpoints Good Omen For Ghana – Sowatey
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana’s identification of 81 constituencies out of the 275 as possible violent-prone areas well ahead of the December 7 polls is a good omen for Ghana’s peace,...
Ghana Police Identifies Over 5000 Flashpoints Ahead of 2016 Elections
The Ghana Police Service says it has identified over five thousand potential flash point in the forthcoming elections which must be managed to prevent any form of violence. The Director General of...
EC Identifies 81 Violent-Prone Areas Ahead of Elections
The Electoral Commission (EC) has identified 81 constituencies out of the 275 as possible violent-prone areas before, during and after the 2016 general election. The Chairperson of the EC, Mrs...
Police To Auction All Seized Motorbikes Nationwide
The Motor Traffic Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service is to auction all seized motorbikes that have taken up spaces at various police stations across the country. The motorbikes...
Re- Uneasy Calm Within The Lower Echelon Of The Peace Makers
On Friday, 2nd September, 2016, I dropped the hint on an uneasy calm among the rank and file of the Ghana Police Service (GPS). This came after the rumours that went viral on social media about the...
‘The Police Are Not As Black As Their Uniform’
By:Joe Frazier I have an abiding memory of a policeman. It is about a strict upright man. He was the General Police Constable dressed in dark gray sweater with leather pad on each shoulder. He wore...
GraduateEnlistementIntoThe Ghana Police Service, Through The Lenses of Karl Marx
“If you tremble with Indignation at every Injustice then you are a comrade of mine". Ernesto Che Guevera The Ghana Police Service(GPS) hinted last week through its Public Affairs Directorate the...
Nima Police Boss, Investigator Detained For Freeing Alleged Drug Dearler
The station officer of the Nima District Police Station and an investigator handling a case involving a suspected drug dealer have been detained for allegedly freeing the drug dealer while he was in...
Who Is The Police Service For?
At times when issues like this come up, then we get frustrated and become very angry to an extent that we want to do the unthinkable but when we look at the love we have for mother Ghana, we restrain...
Dont Nail IGP Over Social Media Ban
I would have call on all Ghanaians to lend our support to the Inspector General of Police to ban social media on Election Day to forestall any security threat if he said so at all. However, on my...
The Recent Spate of Police Robberies and Police Misconducts
From what is happening around the world today, crime and criminal activities appear to be permanent features of modern society. Although it has been with humankind since from creation, it is on the...
Obinim, Church Members Petition God Over Alleged Fraud Case
The founder and leader of the International Gods Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim over the weekend led his congregants to lift up a prayer to God to expose persons who are behind the alleged fraud...
Safety Rules Don’t Apply To Presidential Motorcades – Police
The Commander of the Motor Traffic Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Patrick Adusei Sarpong has announced that road safety rules are not applicable to presidential...
Top Cop Arrested For Car Fraud
A top police officer stationed at the Airport District in Accra, Superintendent Felix Agbenyegah Anyidoho, who has been arrested, is facing administrative enquiry for allegedly engaging in fraudulent...
We Will Rid Service of Errant Cops
Mr John Kudalor, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) of the Ghana Police Service has reassured Ghanaians that the Police Administration would not relent on its efforts to rid the service of men who...
More Bad Cops
We wish we were not raising the issue about the number of law enforcement agents dragging the image of the agency in the mud. Unfortunately, given the rising number, we are constrained to return to...
The NPP Under Akufo-Addo Is Its Own Enemy
Folks, if public utterances coming from the NPP stables should be believed, then, they can lead us to only one firm conclusion that the NPP is damn unstable, porous, paranoid, and useless because of...
Intelligence Failure
What happened in Donkorkrom was avoidable we can bet. Before the residents descended upon the police station and torched it, the Ghana Police Service as an institution should have picked intelligence...
Restore Police Post And Punish Vandals
It is quite an interesting story. I am talking about the at once rather risible and pathetic decision by Mr. John Kudalor, the Inspector-General of the Ghana Police Service, to withdraw all...