Service personel undertake road traffic management training
The Ghana Police Service has began a two-week training programme for the first batch of 1000 national service personnel on urban road traffic management for posting to Accra and Kumasi.
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After the training 600 of them would be to Accra and the remaining 400 posted to Kumasi.
The unprecedented traffic management programmme, under the National Service module on urban road and traffic management is a joint project between the Ghana Police Service and National Service Secretariat(NSS).
The first batch made up of 54 females and 246 males would be posted to Accra after the training to manage traffic in the city and as well educate motorists on road safety.
IGP
In a speech read on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohamamed Alhassan, he expressed the hope that their attachment to the police service would shape and help them to achieve their core mandate.
He said the training would give the service personnel the the opportunity to have practical exposure on the job, both in the public and private sector " and therefore drive you towards national development.”
He said their contact with the service would enable them to educate their peers and members of the public on traffic law enforcement in particular and general police duties as a whole.
The IGP said he hoped that at the end of the training, a good number of them would choose the police as a profession.
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The Director of Training of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Alphonse Adu-Amankwah, in his welcome address said the training would be more practice oriented with exercises on the field rather than in the classroom.
Training for personnel
He said the participants would be taken through an overview of national road safety challenges in Ghana, road traffic causes and crashes and management of traffic congestion.
The Executive Director of the NSS, Dr Michael Kpessa-Whyte said the current traffic situation in the country was not the best and the police service needed more personnel to manage the situation.
He said the idea to get service personnel involved in traffic management is to expose them to state institutions such as the Police Service and make them ambassadors of the service.
He said the postings were also to help build the human resource capacity of the Ghana Police Service.
Dr Kpessa-Whyte expressed the hope that the participants would take their training seriously to enhance their future career opportunities.