GIFEC supports Prisons Service with ICT equipment
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has donated assorted electronic equipment valued at GH¢ 254,000 to the Ghana Prisons Service as part of its mandate to help promote ICT education in the Prisons Service.
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The items comprised 108 desktop computers, 108 uninterrupted power supply (UPS) units, nine scanners and projectors meant to support the Prisons Service in its Inmates Education Programme in ICT.
The gesture was also to help support the plans of the prisons administration to improve the electronic compilation of criminal data and other information while gradually moving away from manual storage of inputs and retrieval of information.
Presentation
Presenting the gadgets, the Administrator of the GIFEC, Mr Kobby Acheampong, urged the service to take care of the equipment to ensure their longevity and also use them for their intended purpose.
Touching on the role of GIFEC in promoting electronic communications, he said the organisation was currently in discussions with the Bureau of National Communications to procure high frequency phones from Motorolla for security agencies such as the Ghana Prisons Service to enhance effective communication.
Mr Acheampong explained that the device, known as Tetra communication gadgets, when made available to the service would assist in escort duties as well as improve communication between its headquarters and other prison facilities in Ghana.
Gratitude
Receiving the items, the Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Madam Matilda Baffour-Awuah, expressed her gratitude to the management of GIFEC for its support to the service over the years.
She recalled GIFEC’s support to the service by way of partnering it in establishing computer laboratories in some central prisons across the country to train both inmates and officers in ICT.
GIFEC also supported the Ghana National Fire Service with ICT equipment.