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General news for Thursday, October 1, 2020
Source: Starr FM
2020-10-01
Director General of Special Functions of the Ghana Police Service, COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno
The Ghana Police Service has warned political parties to desist from protecting electoral offenders before, during and after the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.
According to the Police, it is ready to “unmask and strip any mobster or fugitive of its political coloration” to face the Prosecutor’s Office without fear or favor.
The Director General of Special Duties of the Ghana Police Service, COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, said this during the death of 113 male recruits at the Koforidua Police Training School in the eastern region on Wednesday.
“To the Political Parties, please be vigilant and know that the preferred season of social misfits, bandits, thugs and criminals has arrived so that you can offer them your party and political identity so that they can commit their violence in the name of politics. Please do not isolate them and wrap them with your political identity, ”he said.
He affirmed that the Police are not oblivious to the enormous tasks that lie ahead to ensure peaceful elections, since political tensions have begun to accumulate with seasonal marches on roads, protests, physical confrontations, surprise attacks, destruction of billboards and associated posters. to the elections, adding that he is well prepared to face security challenges.
COP Tetteh Yohuno, however, warned young people, “not to allow yourself to be used as puppets to stir up trouble.”
He expressed his deep gratitude to the government for the exceptional commitment it made in recruiting, training service personnel, and equipping the Service for this task.
He explained that five batches of recruits have already passed out since the government authorized 8,000 young men and women in 2018 to be drafted into the service with the sixth batch still in training.
At the senior level, COP Yohuno stated that “the Police Academy, for the first time in history, has held three (3) successive courses for cadet officers -Course 47, Course 48 and Course 49 in a space of two years and means, medium”.
He said some 1,924 officers recently camped out and were trained in high-risk operations by the Formed Police Unit (FPU), the Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT).
Recruits
COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno advised newly recruited police officers to be disciplined, law-abiding, professional, and desist from being politically biased, as the police system will fish for bad nuts and discard them.
A total of one thousand one hundred and eighty-three (1,183) police recruits were simultaneously evicted on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, in the five Police Training Schools of the country, after successfully passing the six months of mandatory basic police training.
The five police training schools are the National Police Training School (NPTS), Accra; Police Public Safety Training School (PPSTS), Pwalugu; Regional Police Training Schools (RPTS) in Ho, Kumasi and Koforidua.
The new agents studied basic aspects of practical police functions, community surveillance, human rights, criminal investigation, evidentiary law, criminal law and procedure, weapons, and tactical operations, among others.
For the first time, a standardized test was conducted for all recruits in their final exams with Edith Dede Nako Mensah from PPSTS / Pwalugu, emerging as the best overall recruit.
At the various schools, the following were chosen as Best Recruits: Stephen Dugba –NPTS / Accra; Ledi Divine Kwasi –RPTS / Kumasi; Dennis Dzandu –RPTS / Koforidua and Daniel Adjei –RPTS / Ho.
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