The Administration of the Ghana Police Service has asked leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to do their politics without involving the security agency.
According to the police, the two biggest political parties in the country should not in any form interfere in the works of the police with their political games.
The Police gave the advice on Monday, April 17, 2023, after they had met with the leadership of the two parties at the National Police Headquarters in Accra.
The meeting, the police said was necessitated by press statements issued by the parties and subsequently followed by petitions to the Police Service with each party calling on the Police to arrest certain individuals of the other sides for alleged making treasonable comments.
Briefing the general public of the outcome of the meeting in a statement, the police said although it accepts constructive criticism from well-meaning Ghanaians in line of their duties, politics should be the last thing the ‘NPP and NDC’ would consider dragging the police into.
“At the meeting both parties were also urged that with … policing interventions in place, they should do their politics and allow the Police to do policing. We therefore called on them to support us including by criticising us constructively to do a professional job in line with our constitutional mandate,” NPP and NDC told.
The police thus commended the leadership of the two political parties for availing themselves and contributing to the success of the meeting and called on Ghanaians to collaborate with them to build an independent police service which will serve the greater good of the Ghanaian people and not the interest of any individual or group of people.
It stressed they are currently working on adding-up to the already existed strategic interventions introduced by the police administration to handle election and politically related incidents as part of the police transformation agenda.
“The second intervention is the setting up of a dedicated legal team to subject all politically related incidents to legal scrutiny to establish whether there are elements of crime or otherwise before any Police action is taken.”
However, the police served notice that it will not intervene in any situation where there is no criminality involved.
Having said that, “the police assures the public that it remains committed to ensuring peace, security, law and order in the country at all times including before, during and after all elections in the country.”
