Define Standard Procedures for the Ghana Police.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the first gentleman of Ghana must sanitize the Ghana Police Service by drafting a decent Standard Procedures to the entire police force and its administration, to become the right genitals of government to enforce the laws as established under the constitutions of the land.

What is procedural is lost to the police force as there is no standards to any action the police take against civilians, in real life. I say real life because it is only when police officers are in front of cameras that they know exactly which acts of parliament and articles of the constitution mandate them to carry out their duties and responsibilities. But never that, in practice and the worse case is where the cameras are non-existent. I have tried my best to take up this campaign and I could care less who I meet on the wrong side of the law, using his or her uniform to brutalize, defraud or abuse a civilian in any form inhumane. 

Over the years, these awkward practices and conducts became dominant within the force that, it is hard to get a clear definition of who a criminal is, here in Ghana. When certain civilians, recruited by corrupt and ruthless officers in uniform, have the perception of being untouchable by the laws, perpetrating the worse becomes a starting point to the kinds of crimes they can afford. You see police officers in public display of acts they prosecute and arrest defenseless civilians to not practice. The question of who prosecutes the prosecutor is less talked about in our jurisdiction even with high volume of talks about combating crime.

 

This only paints without a brush a cute picture of how crimes can only increase henceforth as those who have the mandate to ensure security and protection of lives and properties are the ones on the loot. The recent instance of police being called to a scene of a beheaded female victim of the recent brutal serial murders in one of the districts in the Greater Accra Region, near Kasoa environs, police after going in for the lifeless body, came back to the scene, without any investigations to determine whether or not the deceased was a native of the vicinity, started giving out warning shots in the air. 

This was done without any considerations of causing more harm to patients with various precarious heart problems which could be triggered by the sound of the gunshots. I am not sure if that was direct call for a psychic analysis for the entire force but something similar needs to be done before things get out of hand here in Ghana. 

If nothing is done in time to discourage this principle-less conducts of our security agency, we could be looking to kissing our long standing goodwill and prestige of lasting peace in Ghana goodbye. Well, you don't think the story relates to the picture in any way? Watch out while i pour out how many civilians suffer inhumane treatments in the hands of police for not wearing crash helmets and the prerequisites from "Okada" riders. 

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