Corruption allegations against the police are not about you, according to Adib Saani.
Adib Saani, a Foreign Policy and Security Analyst, has slammed the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, for criticizing a recent study that named the Ghana Police Service the most corrupt institution in Ghana.
According to Saani, rather than criticizing the surveys, the IGP should acknowledge the issues they raised and work to find solutions to them, according to 3news.com.
He went on to say that corruption in the police force is a national problem that every citizen, including Dr. Dampare, should be concerned about.
"I think it's critical that the IGP understands one thing: this isn't about him." He is the IGP, to be sure, but he needs to understand that the problems in the police force are much larger than he is. It is structural in nature. "It's a systemic problem," the security analyst is quoted as saying on TV3's Ghana Tonight.
"As a professional communicator myself, I would have issued a statement and taken it in giant strides and assured the general population that work is in progress to at least mitigate it to some extent," he added. It's not something you can completely deal with or nip in the bud with a hook, line, and sinker."
COP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, IGP, penned a 5-page response to a report released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and its partners, which ranked the Ghana Police Service at the top of the institutions that take the most bribes.
According to him, the service was dissatisfied with both the report findings and the research methodology.
"We want to state unequivocally that we are concerned about this, because the continuous empirically and scientifically unsubstantiated labeling of the Police as the most corrupt institution in the country only serves to feed this perception, harm the Police Service's reputation, and weaken the morale of its personnel."
"As we have all come to accept, perception is more powerful than reality, and thus we have no choice but to share our position on this matter," Dr. Dampare said.
According to two recent reports by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Police Service is the most corrupt institution in Ghana.
According to the GSS study, over 17.4 million bribes were paid in 2021, with police officers topping the list of officials who accept bribes at 53.2 percent.
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