MP to IGP: Train police to be accountable

The Member of Parliament for Wa West and a retired Superintendent of Police, Peter Lanchene Toobu, is calling on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to train officers on police accountability.

He said, “In any jurisdiction, in any country that you go if you want to understand the status of corruption in that country, look at their police.”

This, he says, will help combat bribery and corruption in the service.

Toobu added, “Collectively we produce the kind of police that we have, we influence the police to develop all the skills we see them exhibit. We should think about training officers on police accountability.”

A recent survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service has ranked the Ghana Police Service as the most corrupt institution among 23 institutions sampled.

Meanwhile, Anthony Amuzu-Pharin, a director of Social and Demographic Statistics at the Ghana Statistical Service said “This is a household survey where we went to the households and ask whether they paid some bribes and who did they pay the bribe to which, which official received the bribe?”

“So it could be more like on those officials of the GRA who collect these taxes at the markets and other smaller enterprises who may not have detail records to be tasked. What we intend doing is to do further analysis and come out with some brief policies, some policy statements that can guide government on how to deal with this type of corruption.”

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