The Inspector Basic of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohuno, has disclosed that the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Journalists Affiliation (GJA) will quickly roll out joint coaching programmes geared toward strengthening relations between the police and the media.
Based on him, the initiative is designed to assist each events higher perceive one another’s roles, particularly throughout election protection and different delicate nationwide assignments.
He defined that the police rely closely on the media to tell the general public, whereas the media rely upon the police for defense in finishing up their duties.
He made this revelation throughout a joint assembly between the police and the GJA on the Worldwide Press Centre in Accra.
The session was organised to handle rising considerations about threats and assaults on journalists, notably throughout election intervals.
The IGP assured journalists that the police would proceed to offer them with most safety, including that officers had already obtained high-risk operational coaching forward of election duties.
On his half, GJA President Albert Kwabena Dwumfuor welcomed the transfer, saying the coaching would scale back tensions and assist forestall misunderstandings between journalists and safety officers.
He urged the police to comply with by with investigations and prosecutions of those that assault media practitioners.
By: Jacob Aggrey
