As part of
its sustained effort to maintain law and order in the upcoming December polls,
the Upper East Regional Police Command has rounded up its intensive Public
Order Management Training at Bolgatanga. The one week training course involving
130 police personnel and two senior police officers drawn from the region
demonstrated their preparedness to combat violent activities during elections.
They exhibited professional skills in tactical movement, riot control by angry
demonstrators and tactics in dispersing violent mob and dismantling of unlawful
road blocks by rioters with arrest of ring leaders. The skills acquired were to
enable them carry out their duties strictly on procedures and not ion trial
basis. The closing ceremony for the
Public Order Management Training forms in line with series of training
organized in the region. In line with its effort at ensuring maximum security
on Election Day, the Regional Police Command with the support of the Police
Administration has embarked on other field activities with the aim of equipping
personnel with requisite skills, knowledge and professional approach to cater
for any unforeseen event during election. Additionally, personnel are
adequately trained as a way of making them physically, mentally and
psychologically fit to provide the requisite security on crowd related violence
before, during and after elections. This is to ensure a successful
electioneering process come December, 7. Demonstrating their skills in respect
to the public order act 491/94, personnel of the service engaged the public
through various professional tactical interventions on how to disperse violent
mob, dismantling of unlawful road blocks and how to prevent demonstrators from
entering into prohibited premises with long batons and shields. The Deputy
Regional Commander of Police, DCOP Ofosu Gyeabour, said the training acquired by personnel of
the service will undoubtedly provide crowd control security before, during and
after election and would be done dutifully to the admiration of all Ghanaians
and the international community. According to him, the protection of electoral officers are
assured since personnel are being trained on how to protect electoral officials
and materials with strategies of diffusing tension through identification of
early warnings. DCOP
Gyeabour asserted that the police administration was ready to handle crowd
related violence in accordance with international standards of policing and
called on the general public to cooperate with the police to ensure that this
year’s elections become free, fair and transparent devoid of any violent
activity. The Upper East Regional Police command has in recent times embarked
on series of activities aimed at ensuring a violent free election. With this, a
regional election security task force was inaugurated to provide security at
the various flash points in the region. The task force involving personnel of
sister security agencies will cater for all the 1,118 polling stations in the
region.
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