Global approach needed to improve police transparency – Security Analyst

General News on Thursday, March 21, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-03-21

The police administration, in its efforts to improve the transparency of the police, plans to deploy body surveillance cameras from here to May 2019.

But a security badyst, Adam Bona, suggested that the police had to do more than the camera for the body.

Police body cameras are small-focus devices, often worn on an officer's chest to capture images.

It has a microphone for recording sounds and an internal memory for data or sequences for later badysis and badysis.

The administration would take delivery of the first batch of 300 body cameras in May 2019.

The decision made by the service is to make the police make the police a stronghold of the police administration following several reported cases of uncontrolled police brutality.

Adam Bona said that the police administration should instead set up an independent body to receive complaints from citizens who he said should be separated from the police administration.

Sending to Citi News, Adam Bona said that while the move is in line with international best practices, a comprehensive approach is needed to enhance transparency and accountability of the police.

"One of my recommendations over the years has been to create an independent commission or authority to deal with citizens' complaints from the national security agency. The idea is that we all know that, aside from the police, the military has also enforced the law in concert with the police. We have immigration [service]sometimes on the news of some of their officers who allegedly extorted money from allegedly illegal immigrants. So let's take a more holistic approach in that regard. Only a camera for the body would not be a solution, "he said.

In January, Selorm Branttie, Vice President of Policy Think Tank of IMANI Africa, asked the Ghanaian police to adopt the use of modern technology as an effective way of combating complex crime and changing in the country.

As a result of recent crimes, such as the murder of an investigative journalist and the abduction of three girls in Takoradi, concerns have been expressed about how the police intervene at a time when crime has become more complex.