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According to Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector General of Police, the agency is considering hiring competent relatives of police personnel who pass away in the course of duty.
The initiative will make up for the loss, according to the IGP.
He continued by saying that the action will also inspire the current officers to put up their best effort.
“When a police officer dies on duty, we have put new measures in place to ensure that a relative of the deceased officer who is qualified is recruited into the service as part of efforts to urge our officers to do their best in protecting the public,” the IGP said while delivering a public lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Thursday, August 11.
“We want a police service of the people, by the people and for the people. We want to make the service the best institution in the country and a reference point in the world,” he added.
The IGP further reaffirmed that the police administration would continue to protest and contest the charge that it is the nation’s most corrupt organization.
According to Dr. Akuffo Dampare, research that identifies the police as the nation’s most corrupt agency has encountered problems with methodology.
“We decided to access ourselves from your perspectives. We have been tagged as unprofessional, corrupt and what have you. We are not denying that we may have some recalcitrant officers amongst us, we are doing all we can to pluck them out. But we will never accept that we are the most corrupt institution.”
