Ghana Police Service seriously understaffed

Accra, Dec. 20, -The Ghana Police Service is seriously understaffed, Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has told Parliament.

    

He explained that the Service needs a minimum number of 56,000 personnel, and there is currently a deficit of 23,000, but the Service is in the process of recruiting 2,000 more.

    

In a concluding remark before the House approved the 2018 budget estimates of GH₵2.6 billion for the Ministry of the Interior, the sector minister said the current police ratio to Ghana’s population is 1:848.

    

The House approved the estimates, noting that, the Ministry had staff and logistics constraints.

    

Some other estimates approved were GH₵598.62 million for the planned programmes of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture; GH₵9.2 billion for the Ministry of Education and GH₵532.68 million for the Ministry of Roads and Highways.

GNA