{"id":241243,"date":"2016-08-21T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241243"},"modified":"2016-08-21T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T06:00:53","slug":"police-train-165-officers-to-deal-with-election-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/police-train-165-officers-to-deal-with-election-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Police train 165 officers to deal with election violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 165 Police personnel from the ten regions of Ghana have successfully completed a three-week intensive high risk course at the Pwalugu police training school ahead of the upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was designed to toughen and strengthen the personnel in combating terrorism attacks, armed robbery, land guards activities and election related violence before, during and after the general polls on December 7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241256 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/police-election-trainees-4.jpg\" alt=\"police election trainees (4)\" width=\"768\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the graduation ceremony at Pwalugu in the Upper East Region, Director-General in-charge of Operations, COP Christian Yohonu asked the trainees to exhibit a high sense of professionalism during the period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your training is to help you deal you robbery incidents, you are also to handle the threats of terrorism and against land guards activities which is disturbing a lot of people acquire lands. But most importantly, it is your duty to protect the electoral process and handle any violence and situations that goes beyond the ordinary police officer at the polling stations. So you are to protect the ballot boxes, any armed vigilante that will want to cause violence you will deal with them ruthlessly. We are to remove the fear from Ghanaians and protect mother Ghana,&#8221; Mr. Yohonu stated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241255 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/police-election-trainees-3.jpg\" alt=\"police election trainees (3)\" width=\"764\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COP Yohonu added that, personnel of the service will fiercely clamp down on recalcitrant police officers who engage in robbery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to deal ruthlessly with all police personnel among us who have joined the robbery gangs, point your gun against your own personnel(s) who get involved in armed robbery, let\u2019s deal ruthlessly with them, let us not spare them, and let us whip them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241253 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/police-election-trainees-2.jpg\" alt=\"police election trainees (2)\" width=\"768\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upper East Regional Police Commander, DCOP Simon Yao Afeku urged the trainees to refrain from brutalizing citizens on those mandate they are trained to protect.<\/p>\n<p>He also appealed to residents in the region to eschew all forms of violence for peaceful general elections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241258 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/police-election-trainees-6.jpg\" alt=\"police election trainees (6)\" width=\"737\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Frederick Awuni\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 165 Police personnel from the ten regions of Ghana have successfully completed a three-week intensive high risk course at the Pwalugu police training school ahead of the upcoming general elections. 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