The Police Transformation Office under the leadership of ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo, has kicked start the agenda of transforming the Ghana Police Service into a world class institution by organizing a workshop for some of their personnel.
Participants selected from the junior and senior ranks will be taken through five key thematic areas including welfare of the officers on the ground, revamping criminal investigations, emboldening Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS) to strengthen ethics and ICT.
The Inspector General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu at the opening ceremony said the five key thematic areas by the police administration are anchored on 13 government strategic objectives and the United Nations sustainable development Goal 16.
“By the end of this workshop, it is expected that your minds will become agile and this is important because without agile minds, doing a transformation with traditional and conservative mind-set will be an exercise in futility.”
Mr David Asante Apeatu narrated that the essence of leadership in a regimented organization like the Ghana Police Service needed a structured approach to empowering all commanders across the command chain.
“Every leader in the command chain from myself through Police Management Board Members(POMAB), Regional / divisional/ district commanders, station officers, the charge office NCOs, and even the patrol team leaders, need a mental transformation to push the Ghana Police Service towards the best in Africa and among the best ten in the world,” he averred.
With excitement, the IGP stated that he was happy that the police administration was finally bringing all the ideas and plans that have been developed in the transformation programme into the limelight.
“We can do many things without money and even many more without logistics but we all know that we can do nothing without human resource.”
Mr Asante-Apeatu said the Ghana Police Service wants to be the first public sector organization to lead the way in a transformation hungry country by applying the latest and popularly used methodology by world class organizations like KLM, FBI, Metropolitan Police, Google among others.
The workshop is being supported by Mr Martin Hinshelwood, one of the best trainers in scrum/agile methodology from Scotland.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey