{"id":274045,"date":"2016-12-04T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=274045"},"modified":"2016-12-04T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T11:29:44","slug":"police-planning-to-deploy-personnel-to-their-constituencies-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/police-planning-to-deploy-personnel-to-their-constituencies-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Police planning to deploy personnel to their constituencies – EC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Police Administration is putting in place measures to ensure their personnel who have been unable to vote in the first and second phase of the special voting exercise are able to vote on December 7, the day of the general elections.<\/p>\n
This is according\u00a0to the Electoral Commission (EC), which was been calling for calm, as more security personnel are being turned away from polling centres across the country.<\/p>\n
The Head of Communications at the Commission, Eric Dzakpasu confirmed to Citi News<\/strong> that,\u201c the police hierarchy have been informed, they know and they are making arrangements to deploy such people to their various constituencies to work on election day so they can also vote.\u201d<\/p>\n Clarifying the directives of the Commission for the special voting, Mr. Dzakpasu explained that, \u201cif your name is on the special\u2019s voters list, go to your constituency and vote there. But where your name is not on the special voters’ lists, you will have to vote on the 7th of December.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to the possible reasons for the challenges, he noted that, \u201ceither their names were not presented or the names were presented but their details in terms of the polling centre code were not accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n Sunyani: Soldiers turned away right before deployment<\/strong><\/p>\n It is as yet unclear if the same arrangement\u00a0is being made for military personnel as Citi News’ Duke Mensah Opoku reported from the Sunyani that some soldiers at the Liberation barracks were turned away right before their deployment across the country.<\/p>\n Some soldiers came from as far as the army barracks in Takoradi, Western Region. The commanding officers were unable to confirm if the deployment schedules would be reviewed to allow the soldiers to vote in December 7.<\/p>\n