Elsewhere in this edition,
there is a bad story about the police: an Inspector and his subordinates beat
up a colleague cop in Winneba in the full glare of onlookers. Not even his self-identification
that he is a colleague cop saved him from the assault of his colleagues, who
eventually dragged him, as it were, to the Winneba District Police Station.
Sadly the attackers – officers from
the Rapid Deployment Force – beat up the Inspector under the watch of their
superior officer, an Assistant Superintendent of Police. Notwithstanding
beating him up, their side of the coin was wrong.
The act of pulling the victim
from a taxi and assaulting him is a pointer to how much indiscipline has become
a feature of the law enforcement agency in the country.
It is regrettable that the law
enforcement institution should be showing such moral fault lines. It is strange
that police officers would do what they did to a colleague. Were the man to be
a civilian perhaps they would kill him and claimed that he attacked them with
an imaginary weapon.
We expect that those involved
in this shameful act would be brought to book in consonance with Service
Orders.
What moral authority would such
cops have to attempt restoring public order when this is being breached in
town? Of course, they have lost this important condition of policing – self
control.
As for their commander, the
Assistant Superintendent of Police, we wonder whether he must continue being a
commissioned officer. He should either be sacked or demoted to the rank of a Corporal.
Assuming that the assaulted cops did
what the superior officer claimed he did – obstructing the police from doing
their work – was watching his men assault a human being the way it happened the
right thing to do?
A commander is expected to
exude discipline by proper control of his men and certainly not encouraging
them to be disorderly and to conduct themselves in a manner not commensurate
with the standards of policing.
We expect the RDF men who were
deployed for duties at the Aboakyir Festival in Winneba and who are at the
centre of the shameful act to be put on orders immediately.
They are unfit to don the
uniform of police officers. They do not understand what policing is about and
cannot be counted upon to be good ambassadors of the Ghana Police Service.
The efforts at changing the
image of the police can only start when such bad nuts are identified through
their bad conduct and eliminated from the Service.
Ghana needs a new crop of
police officers and superior officers alike and not the like of the RDF
officers who disgraced themselves and the Ghana Police Service near a Winneba
taxi rank.
In an age of social media
driven pictures, we would not be surprised if pictures of the brawl were taken
and distributed across the world. Shame unto the officers!
We expect the PR outfit to come
out with a statement on this incident and what actions are being preferred
against the defaulters. We have had too much of such indiscipline from the police.
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