The Police Council has received a petition from about 85 police officers regarding delays in their promotions.
After being given study leave by the Police Administration, the petitioners are asking for "academic promotion" since they have earned higher academic degrees.
The police officers claimed that all efforts to persuade the police administration to enroll them in the Police Staff College to open a door for their "academic promotion" had failed in a petition signed by their attorney, Ayikoi Otoo.
The petition claimed that it had become customary in the police force for personnel who had official study leave to enroll in the Police Staff College to receive "academic promotions."
"I sincerely request that the police administration opens the doors to the petitioners so that they may enjoy the results of their labor by enabling them to attend the Police College," the petition stated. "I thus offer this plea on behalf of the petitioners."
Discretion
According to the petition, the Police Administration always used its discretion to let officers who had been given study leaves receive academic promotions.
According to the petitioners, failing to use its discretion in their favor this time would be an example of "arbitrariness, capriciousness, or bias, either by anger, prejudice, or personal hate towards the petitioners."
"It has never occurred that graduates who took paid study leaves were denied the chance of academic advancements," they continued.
As a result, it may be inferred that the Police Administration has given in and let all graduates enroll at the Police College in line with their judgment.
study leave
The petition said that the impacted police officers received paid study leave for the 2017–2018 academic year and that they also executed the necessary five-year year bond.
The petition claims that the officers requested an "academic promotion" from the Police Administration after completing their respective study programs.
They were all thanked for their accomplishments in return, but the administration said nothing about their promotions other than to note that they were only eligible for administrative, not academic, advancements, according to the petition.
Regulation
The petitioners asserted that they were aware of Regulation 37(7) of the Police Service Regulations, 2012 (C.I. 76), which states that "an officer who attains greater academic level is not entitled to promotion by reason alone of such academic competence."
In the petition, it was stated that "I wish to submit on behalf of your petitioners that looking at regulation 37(7) of C.I.76, it vests the Police Administration with a discretion just as when it was contained in the Policy Guidelines and requires a broadly liberal and purposeful interpretation to take into consideration the history of the provision and the goal of the Police Administration in awarding Study Leave with Pay to successful candidates for the benefit of the Service.
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