Ghana, a human rights journalist, calls for police to be informed of human rights

General News of Saturday, April 20, 2019

Source: Ghananewsone.com

2019-04-20

The brutality of the police force in Ghana is bad, but will it stop alone or something more radical should be done?

The Ghanaian police is an important government security service responsible for maintaining internal security, law enforcement and the law. Their duties are essential to the safety of all people living in Ghana.

The police is an organ representing the government's civilian authority to ensure public order and security at all times throughout the country.

Overview of Police Functions

They ensure that laws are enforced, act professionally to prevent crime, detect crime and investigate such results through in-depth criminal investigations. These functions are the responsibility of the Ghana Police Service. Ghana's police services also provide security for businesses and property.

The basic function of the police is set out in Section 1 of the Police Service Act, 1970 (Bill 350).

The police service is responsible for preventing and detecting crimes, apprehending offenders and maintaining public order and the safety of persons and property.

Ghanaian police provide other services to the general public, such as car-related tasks to ensure the safety of road users on our roads.

The Ghanaian police also investigate and issue criminal police certificates and help vulnerable women cope with traumatic and psychological problems resulting from badual abuse (usually against minors), women and children. ; children.

From the foregoing, it is clear that Ghana needs the police to be at the top of their job if we, as a nation, want to live in a safe and peaceful environment.

Police officers in case of robbery or other dangerous criminal events risk their lives.

This and other heroic acts of great police officers in the Ghana police can not be underestimated.

Police brutality

However, police brutality has persisted for a long time and many innocent people have been the victims of murder due to police negligence and stray bullets. In other cases, people lost their lives because they were wrong to be criminals on the spot. Other people were badly injured and bedridden because of police brutality.

Human rights activists, such as lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu, and non-governmental organizations, such as Human Rights Reporters Ghana, have expressed concern over the lack of professionalism of the police in the exercise of their rights. their functions.

Police officers were found brutalizing unarmed civilians. Human Rights Reporters Ghana, a non-governmental organization dedicated to education, human rights advocacy and human rights advocacy in Ghana and the United States. All of Africa, is badociated with the appeal by the lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu that the police should take a course in the field of human rights, equip them with the information, knowledge and skills needed to treat civilians while maintaining public order so as not to violate the rights of civilians.

Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu, who spoke at the AM Show show on Joy News, said police officers needed to pbad a course on human rights before they to be sent to the police station.

The time when police officers want to show civil or offender the law where they have power must be gone. Meanwhile, the driver Trotro and his companion, captured in a viral video in which they were fighting an officer in uniform, also reported how they had been beaten and abused by Ghanaian police since their arrest.

Dwaso Nsem Show, a journalist with the Adom radio station, said he was beaten, slapped and mistreated by various law officers who took turns fighting the blind side of the law to "punish" them for "defeating" another policeman.

According to the narration, the policeman was the first to hit the driver from behind after entering the Trotro. The driver added that the policeman had used his helmet to get on his head and that he had had to defend himself because he realized that his life was threatened.

Another police brutality suffered by Latif Iddris of Joy News and other unprofessional acts of police constitute human rights abuses committed by many policemen, who went unpunished.

Training Ghanaian police officers on human rights issues is an urgent call that the police administration must consider going forward. Officers and new recruits must receive professional training to train them to perform their policing duties effectively.