{"id":395786,"date":"2018-01-29T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=395786"},"modified":"2018-01-29T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:41:05","slug":"govts-only-pay-lip-service-to-police-service-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/govts-only-pay-lip-service-to-police-service-franklin-cudjoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’ts only pay lip service to Police Service – Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"
President of Policy Think Tank, IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has noted that the failure of successive governments to follow through on promises to resource Ghana’s Police Service as\u00a0one the reasons\u00a0the Service is in a “decrepit” state.<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong>, Franklin Cudjoe said the Service was in need of serious help if they are to execute their mandate of protecting the citizens.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”bBsKzdQGXExGPYXZ6Tiv7K6UxDcJqfff”]”I don\u2019t think we have a proper police service\u2026 of course, it is the doing of successive governments. I am told reliably, with figures, that we are supposed to have about 52,000 police personnel. As we speak, we have about 38,000 and this year, they are only recruiting 4,000,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Cudjoe noted that, the lack of support for police operations from the state over the past two years.<\/p>\n “The politicians have been paying lip service. Did you know that in 2016, the NDC government gave zero cedis to the police service for its operations of the entire elections? They got zero, nothing\u2026 and in 2017 again, they go zero again from the NPP government for their operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n