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By Iddi Yire / Gifty Amofa, GNA
Accra, May 2, GNA – Deputy Commissioner of
Police (ACP) David Eklu, Director General, Public Affairs, Ghana Police
Service advised journalists to report first any police attack on them.
nearest police station before going to the press.
He said the situation by which journalists
to report in the media the police attacks against them without formalizing
complaints to the nearest police station, only leads the case to
the media.
"We have a press investigation unit at my
Office. Normally, some of these cases are only found in the media. And we do not
have archives to take concrete steps to investigate, "said ACP Eklu to
Thursday in Accra during a round table at a forum on the security of
journalists
The forum was organized jointly by the Media
Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) in collaboration with Ghana's journalists
Assistant (GJA) on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
The other members of the panel were Mr. Roland Affail
Monney, president of the GJA; Audrey Gadzekpo, Dean of the School of Information, Professor
and Communication Studies, University of Ghana; and Mr. Salifu Abdul Rahaman,
Senior Assistant Editor, Ghanaian Times Newspaper.
ACP Eklu noted that the first step in the management
a crime was to report it to the nearest police station; stating that "if you
report it in the news, it ends there ».
He said that reporting a crime in the news was good
but this should be preceded by a complaint to the police station.
He said that the victim had reported the case to the
The police were the starting point of his outfit to monitor and monitor how the police
cases against journalists and the public.
ACP Eklu called for a cordial work
relations between the police and journalists.
Prof Gadzekpo advised media owners to
the question of the safety of journalists by helping to identify them and by providing
them with protective gadgets; especially when it covers related conflicts
events.
She said that journalists should be the hub of
public education about their work (journalism); adding that more importantly to
religious organizations, so as not to attack them when they write about
their leaders.
Professor Kwame Karikari, Member of the Board of Directors of MFWA,
urged media training institutions to help news organizations develop guidelines
their journalists to ensure their safety.
Affail Monney urged media professionals to
compromise their professional ethics and stay safe to live and
tell their stories.
Mr. Rahman said he was heckled and brutalized
as a criminal was not something that the reporter should go through and called
police to consider them as development partners.
GNA
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