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Original Post Date: 2010-04-05 Time: 19:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
The Police Institution is empowered to enforce the law, protect property and reduce civil disorder. These functions of the Police in Ghana are spelt out in Section 1 of the Police Force Act, 1970 (Act 350), with the primary aim stating among others that: “It shall be the duties of the Police Force to prevent and detect crime, to apprehend offenders and to maintain public order and safety of persons and properties”.
Nowhere in this major function of the Police was any exceptions made and it does not lie in the mouth of any Police personnel to apply the law to suit his or her whims and caprices.
It is in the light of the above that The Chronicle expresses surprise at what we consider to be the unprofessional utterances of the Yendi District Police Command. In the wake of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth activists in Yendi threatening to kill their Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr. HuduWelvis, for not acquiescing to their demands, we find the loud silence in the inaction of the Yendi Police concerning the case very disturbing.
The strange defense put up by the Yendi District Police Commander, DSP Patrick Blepoe that they cannot arrest any of the youth who have threatened to kill the MCE because the issue is too political than criminal, is to say the least very unfortunate indeed. If we are to take the politics out of the issue at hand, then the threat to kill the Yendi MCE is a purely criminal matter which deserves to be treated as such.
This latest happening goes to confirm the perception that security personnel usually express trepidation in enforcing the laws when it concerns political parties, especially the ruling party.
As the police hasten to protect their position in the service and avoid transfers as punishment, they act slowly when it comes to asserting themselves in matters involving political parties, in order to avoid stepping on big political toes.
As a result, acts of thuggery and vandalism are perpetrated under the cloak of political patronage. Social miscreants have therefore found it convenient to infiltrate the political parties where their actions would receive the tacit approval of their political paymasters.
Our politics of engagement has so much deteriorated to the level that if a person commits a criminal act and is arrested by the security agents, the accused person should just say he or she belongs to a certain political party, and that political party would just shout political witch-hunting, and the criminal activity that was perpetrated would become drowned in the midst of the verbal exchanges between the rival parties.
It is time that the security agencies start to draw the fine line between what is outright criminal and what is political in nature. Politics is not a dirty game, as people would want to ascribe it to, but a noble enterprise with the genuine intent to serve and enhance the living conditions of the people.
Politicians should not allow the miscreants in their midst to disparage the good image of Ghana’s politics which the nation has been able to build over the years.
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Original date published: 1 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004020899.html?viewall=1