The Director-General of the CID, DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwah Addo-Danquah, has tasked personnel of the department to exhibit high standards of professionalism in their work by employing intelligence-led investigation in their operations.
[contextly_sidebar id=”N8QdfkBasdgw9ZenH038Ms6z40bJmD9t”]She urged the personnel to be proactive in the discharge of their duties especially as the recent dynamics in crime require that police adopt sophisticated techniques in addressing them.
“We need to be changing our attitudes towards investigations. We need to embrace intelligence-led investigation. We have to move from reactive policing to proactive policing. There is the need for us to work us a team especially with other stakeholders in our jurisdiction. If there is the need for us to get in touch with the prisons, immigration, army, etc. let us embrace all of them so that at the end of the day, we will be able to improve the service delivery,” she said.
The CID has come under severe public criticisms for its handling of investigations in recent times.
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah recently disclosed that only 30 percent of police investigators nationwide have undergone proper training.
She observed that, “We have only 30% of investigators nationwide who have actually been trained and that means one investigator may be made to man a whole district.”
While addressing participants of the 2018 Detective Training course in Accra in February, 2018, she noted that Ghanaians were fast losing confidence in the police hence the need for them to change their way of operation.
“Already Ghanaians have lost or are losing confidence in us, and so we cannot continue to do things the same way as was done yesteryear,” she stressed.
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By: Jonas Nyabor/citinewsroom.com/Ghana