{"id":321218,"date":"2017-05-21T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=321218"},"modified":"2017-05-21T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:36:41","slug":"protect-the-integrity-of-the-police-service-officers-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=321218","title":{"rendered":"Protect the integrity of the Police service &#8211; Officers urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel of the Ghana Police Service have been urged to exhibit a high level of professionalism and dedication in the discharge of their duties to protect the integrity of their profession.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), David Nenyi Ampiah-Bennin, Central Regional Police Commander gave the admonition at the inauguration of a new Police station at Assin Nyankomasi in the Assin Central Municipality of the central Region.<\/p>\n<p>The edifice, which comprised; a charge office, station master&#8217;s office, male cell and place of convenience was financed by community members, benevolent individuals, and corporate bodies.<\/p>\n<p>DCOP Ampiah-Bennin said the poor corporate image was a serious de-motivation and had a lingering demoralizing effect on hard working personnel who ensured that the nation enjoyed a modicum of peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>He admonished the officers who would be posted to the new station to maintain high moral ethics, exhibit a high level of professionalism, dedication with the commitment to duty for the public to have confidence in them.<\/p>\n<p>DCOP Ampiah-Bennin further advised police officers to be civil, firm and level-headed in the discharge of their mandated duties, saying \u201cyou must disengage from bad deeds that will mar the reputation and soil the integrity of the noble profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Commander also advised the people to be law abiding because it was the surest way to peace and rapid development in the area.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cthe strong presence of the police in any community helped to substantially reduce crime rate&#8221; and warned all miscreants who attacked police stations at the least provocation to desist from such acts or be ready to face them.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the people to assist the police in providing maximum security and protection of lives and property by volunteering information on criminal&#8217;s hideouts.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Commander, commanded the chief, people and their benefactors for building the police station and urged corporate institutions and other communities without police posts to emulate them.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Kwesi Ansah, Chief of the community thanked the Police Service for accepting the offer to build a police station in the town and pledged to collaborate with them to reduce crime in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nSource: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel of the Ghana Police Service have been urged to exhibit a high level of professionalism and dedication in the discharge of their duties to protect the integrity of their profession. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), David Nenyi Ampiah-Bennin, Central Regional Police Commander gave the admonition at the inauguration of a new Police station at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,320,4347],"class_list":["post-321218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-police","tag-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}