Police maintenance culture is poor - Amissah-Arthur

The Vice President, His Excellency Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has expressed disgust at the poor maintenance culture of the Ghana Police Service, saying that it has contributed to the fast deterioration of their facilities.

He, therefore, warned that if care is not taken, most of the police facilities will go bad within the shortest possible time.

According to him, the premises of the police Barracks over the years was under-maintained, saying “you will agree with me that the police Baracks maintenance is nothing to write home about”.

Mr. Amissah Arthur made the above pronouncement at a ceremony to hand-over a seven unit 42 apartments constructed to accommodate senior police officers at Cantonments, Accra.

The 42-three bedroom flats, The 'Chronicle' learnt, was a Public Private Partnership (PPP) between the government of Ghana and Messrs Gold Key/Alema Properties Limited, to provide the police service with decent accommodation.

The Vice President, in doing so, called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan to do more in ensuring that the standard of maintenance of the police service was enhanced.

“I am very impressed with the work done so far, even though the police needs a total of 42,000 housing units, organizing 42 flats is very important’, he said.