We Have To Deal With Changing Crime Dynamics, Poor Intelligence Gathering – Kwasi Aning

The Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center (KAIPTC) said the changing dynamics of crime require a different strategy to tackle crime.

Professor Kwesi Aning, speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday observed that poor intelligence gathering contributes to the rise in crime.

“What we are seeing is a combination of years of lack of investment in police intelligence, lack of investment in planning, lack of investment in understanding the changing dynamics of crime and the use of crime. operational intelligence to map, respond and distribute resources, then retrieving the information [fish out how to] link the disbursement of logistics to areas particularly prone to crime so that we are able to respond appropriately and efficiently, ”he said.

Residents of Accra were frightened during the week following at least four daylight robberies in parts of the capital.

On Monday, September 20, four armed thieves carried out the well-planned and coordinated heist in Achimota along the Accra-Amasaman highway.

It seems that the bandits followed a woman from a bank in Abeka, where she went to withdraw a large sum of money.

The second incident happened near a bank in Kwashieman on Wednesday, September 22, in which an unidentified man was shot in the leg by thieves shortly after he walked out of the bank and qu ‘they stole his money.

A police statement on Friday also said a 33-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in the amount of 29,000.

Like the previous ones, another victim who had just withdrawn a sum of money from a bag was assaulted when armed men on motorcycles fired shots and robbed him.

For his part, the Acting Director General of the Public Affairs Directorate of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Kwesi Ofori, commenting on the thefts on the same show, assured that the police, with the help of technology and cameras security, was working to identify the culprits. .

To this, Professor Aning said that while the use of CCTV is essential, it is necessary to be careful how the information captured on these cameras is used.

“Who has access to it, and more so the way in which the murder and theft and the information on this CCTV camera was thrown into the public space, endangering the owners of these cameras has really undermined public confidence in how he can share information with that service, ”he said.

The security expert also suggested that the background of bank staff be checked regularly to reassure customers or those who use the banks that such questions raise fundamental questions.

“Are we going to look for people within that particular bank, check their laptops, check their phone records to make sure there hasn’t been any compromise of sensitive customer information?” “

“That lady who took the money from the bank, how did the criminal know she had the money on her?” he asked.

Professor Aning further noted that the quality and caliber of criminals’ weapons has changed, hence the need for the police to improve their game.

“Ten years ago we saw pump guns; right now, we are seeing military weapons, AK47s, ”he noted.

He said, however, that he hoped that the measure put in place by ACP Kwesi Ofori and his team, if implemented, would produce results in generating trust between the Service and the public.