Written by Peter Clottey | From Voice of America
Ghana’s police have launched a training program for officers to combat terrorism, according to Chief Superintendent Hamza Yakubu, the commanding officer of the Formed Police Unit (FPU).
“With the recent happenings in Africa, the police administration thought it necessary to beef up the capabilities of our personnel. That answers the reasons why we have to embark upon the recent specialized training exercise we conducted in the Volta region for our personnel,” said Yakubu.
Yakubu said that the newly trained officers are highly motivated but need cooperation from citizens to effectively thwart terrorist attacks.
“We are asking Ghanaians to be rest assured that we are adequately prepared, adequately trained, adequately equipped to respond to any incident,” said Yakubu.
The FPU police officers, Yakubu said, have also been trained to use non-lethal weapons for crowd control and rescue missions.
His comments followed the graduation of 140 police personnel from a specialized training course.
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