Koforidua, Oct. 12, GNA - The Ghana Police Service is reviewing the syllabus of its training schools with the aim of demilitarizing the personnel and internalizing the philosophy of democratic policing in them= .. This was announced by the Deputy Eastern Regional Commander of the Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kwabena Gyamera-Yeboah, a= t the formal opening of a two-week course for 150 police personnel at the Regional Police Training School at Koforidua on Monday. He explained that the exigencies of constitutional rule required tha= t the police enforced law and order in accordance with appropriate principl= es of democratic policing. Mr Gyamera-Yeboah said the demands of the time required that police personnel were kept well informed about the techniques of modern policing= .. He said an area that required the collective input of participants w= as the development of societal partnership in policing. He urged all police personnel to strive to uphold the current partnership between the police and civil society wherever they worked so that the police would receive public support to perform their functions a= nd the public would be satisfied that they had been protected. Mr Gyamera-Yeboah said the Police Service must be seen as an organization existing to cater for the interest of society and not as an instrument of oppression and intimidation. Earlier in a welcoming address, the officer commanding the Koforidua=

Police Training School, Mr Nuhu Jango, explained that the course was the second in a series planned by management of the Service to upgrade the performance of police personnel. He said the personnel would be taken through topics like "Leadership=

Skills," "Democratic Policing," "Police Procedures," "Criminal law, Community Policing," "Traffic Management," "First Aid and Report Writing"=