The Police administration is re-strategising its operations to become more child-friendly in its pursuit of issues directly affecting minors, by creating the needed environment for such members of the society, to interact with police personnel.
To this end, series of training workshops are being organised to re-orient police officers to better appreciate the legalities in handling issues involving children.
Two hundred and 50 police personnel in the Ashanti Region, have undergone a six-day capacity enhancing training course, at the Regional Police Training School, where they were taken through carefully selected topics to enable them to tactfully handle cases in which children who come into conflict with the law or serve as witnesses in criminal cases appear before them.
The Coordinator for the training programme, Superintendent Benjamin Dokurugu, who is also the immediate past Ashanti Regional Commander of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service, DOVVSU, explained that the orientation programme is in line with strides being made by the Police administration to conform to the UN Convention on the Right of the Child, to which Ghana is a signatory, while bringing them up to date on national laws that seek to protect the right of the child.
Superintendent Dokurugu emphasised that after going through the training, Police personnel must protect the interest of minors who come into direct contact with them, in the performance of their official duties, so as to ensure that minors do not suffer any immediate or future negative consequences.
