BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION PRESENTS COMPUTERS TO POLICE (Page 28)

21/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah
The Deputy British High Commissioner, Ms Menna Rawlings, has presented 10 specialised Dell computers to the Ghana Police Service after closing a five-day training programme on “intelligence analysis of information on small arms and light weapons” in Accra.
The computers will be installed at five separate centres in the country to assist in the quick sharing of information to and from the CID headquarters and the police research department to the regions.
Ms Rawlings said the training formed part of a number of capacity building programmes for the Police Service by the British High Commission.
She said the training programme was directed at tackling the movement of small arms and light weapons into and around Ghana through a sound intelligence approach.  She said the commission viewed its collaboration with the police as a really important aspect of the bilateral relationship between the two countries, adding that “we want to work with the IGP in his efforts to build a more effective and efficient police service that will benefit all Ghanaians”.
She urged the participants to use whatever knowledge they had acquired for the benefit of the whole country.
The Deputy Commissioner also thanked the resource persons from Cranfield University and Xpert Software, both from the UK, for their hard work and dedication.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, who received the computers, thanked the British High Commission for their continued assistance to the Ghana Police Service.
He said the training would go a long way to equip the participants with the necessary skills to conduct intelligence-led operations.

CAPTION
PIX ONE : The Deputy British High Commissioner, Ms Menna Rawlings, presenting the computers to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong.

PIX TWO: ???A group photograph of the participants with the resource persons from the UK , the IGP, Ms Rossie Tapper of Political Affairs and the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr Menna Rawlings???.

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