New badge of authority for police personnel

 
The Police Administration has introduced a badge of authority for all police personnel across the country.

This is to facilitate easy identification of the police and also to prevent private security personnel from mimicking the police.

The silver badge has numbers that are peculiar to individual police personnel to enable the Police Administration to easily identify officers who would misconduct themselves while on duty.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Reverend Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, who made this known, said the police administration had intensified its image-cleansing exercise to elicit more confidence and respect from major stakeholders, who were members of the public.

Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, who is the Director-General of the Police Public Affairs Department, said the administration had devised strategies to also boost the morale of the personnel.

He said the recent launch of a bus shuttle service to convey police personnel from their homes to their various stations or duty posts was a measure to boost their morale.

He said the shuttle service would be extended to all districts and units of the police service to ensure that personnel got to work on time.

Formations
Nenyi Ampah-Bennin said the Police Administration had restructured the police service into three major formations —  Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) and the Patrol Department — in conformity with policing systems in the world.

He said the three major departments would be institutionalised and would become the hub of policing duties.

Preventive policing
The Director-General of Police Public Affairs said this year, the service would concentrate more on the preventive aspect of policing, adding that more personnel would be deployed on the roads to ensure compliance with road traffic regulations, to reduce road accidents.

He said new strategies had also been developed to reduce crime.