ANTI TERRORISM COURSE FOR POLICE OPENS

27/11/2007.
Story: Mary Mensah
A Counter Terrorism Professional Development Course to equip the Ghana Police with skills to enable them measure up to the security challenges for CAN 2008 has opened in Accra.
The course is being organised by the Cranfield University of the United Kingdom in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Police Service.
The participants are expected to be taken through the global threats from international terrorism, specific threats to Ghana terrorism and crime scene management among others.
Opening the course in Accra today, DCOP Patrick Timbilla, Director General of Police Operations indicated that this is the third in a series of courses that has been organised for the police to draw up a comprehensive plan for the security management of the tournament.
He said the uniqueness of the course is two fold, “ first of all it is not only for the purpose of CAN 2008 but for the participants to update their knowledge of investigative techniques for anti-terrorism investigations”.
He said secondly participants includes instructors from all police training institutions and this will help to improve their lesson plans for criminal investigations and this will go along way to improve recruit learning in the training institutions.
The Director General said the course would assist the police to prepare themselves against any attempt of terrorism in the country.
He thanked the British government for their continues immense assistance to the Ghana Police Service and the Ministry of Finance for releasing funds for training programmes for Ghana 2008.
Mr Keith Weston, one of the three resource persons from Cranfield stated that the more a country participates in international events it becomes vulnerable to terrorism attacks.
He said the course will help Ghana to come out with a workable solutions in case of any eventuality.