As the country gets closer to the general election in 2024, the Ghana Police Service has collaborated with the two main political parties on two new security initiatives.
According to a police statement released on Monday, April 17, the meeting was required as a result of press releases from the parties and petitions to the Police Service from each party asking the Police to detain specific opponents for various alleged crimes.
The police claimed that they informed the political parties of the two strategic measures taken to handle elections and all situations involving politics.
“The first strategic intervention shared with them is the establishment of the Police Election Security Secretariat to work with all political parties and other stakeholders to enhance the management of security for all elections in the country.
The second intervention is the setting up of a dedicated legal team to subject all politically related incidents to legal scrutiny to establish whether there are elements of crime or otherwise before any Police action is taken. The Police will, therefore, not intervene in any situation where there is no criminality involved,” parts of the document read.
With the aforementioned security measures in place, the police urged politicians to feel free to go about their political business and “allow the Police to do policing.”
“We, therefore, called on them to support us including by criticising us constructively to do a professional job in line with our constitutional mandate.”
The police also called on the general public to help the Service in its effort to build an independent Police Service which will serve the greater good of Ghanaians and not the interest of any individual or group of people.
“We wish to assure the public that we remain committed to ensuring peace, security, law and order in the country at all times including before, during and after all elections in the country.”
