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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    In this scientific era where positive discrimination forms part of corporate governance, Ghana Police Service is still talking about an archaic code of ethics. They better co-opt minorities unto their fold to help eliminate c ...
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  • STUPID ATUGUBA . 10 years ago

    Akosua Tabuwaa,your commenting about England,and that officer is talking about Ghanaians officers,next time read to your understanding before you give your comment.Thanks .

  • facts 10 years ago

    The important issues in making recruits for the police is not the hair cuts or styles. Compare the population of the volta region to that of the ashanti region ; find out the percentage recruits from the volta and compare to ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    CANT U HAVE AN UNDERCOVER RASTA POLICE OFFICER? U PPL NO MAKE WILD

  • Gaby Bruk 10 years ago

    Twin babies aborted into public toilet pit at Ntsin
    General News of Thursday, 11 July 2013
    Source: Adom News

    Information reaching Adom News indicates that a set of twin babies have been delivered into a public toilet at ...
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  • Homesense 10 years ago

    '...because they are considered indecent."

    This statement assigns the reason for the Police's action in derogatory terms, and is not in tune with the rest of the explanation given by the PRO.

    The business of policing an ...
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  • Ras Kwasi 10 years ago

    De baba men nuh like de dreadlocks man
    De dreadlocks man nuh like de baba man, no
    De po-lice men nuh like de dreadlocks man
    De dreadlocks man nuh like de po-lice man, no
    So war inna babylon, tribal war inna Babylon

  • D/COP KOFI 10 years ago

    Fool,"u learnt"look at yourself thinking you know a lot meanwhile you dont know as you suppose to know.Visit cells all over Ghana count the number of rastas in there.We decided not to mind your ignorance but is too much to s ...
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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    Can't you argue your case without an insult Mr D/COP? You see, I don't blame you because you are one of the useless university graduates supervising rot in the police service. Nonsense.

  • YOOSI 10 years ago

    Whether you like it or not, not every one can be where they want to be at all times. The police service has its own ethics. If you are lame in one leg, you cant join.

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    CLEAN SHAVE IS A UNIVERSAL STANDARD FOR ALL POLICE AND ARMY RECRUITS. SO RASTAFARIANS SHOULD EITHER AGREE TO BE SHAVED OR THEY SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE FORCES AND CARRY ON WITH THEIR MESSY LOOK. MAY BE THEY CAN MIGRATE TO JAMAI ...
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  • Akosua Tabuwaa 10 years ago

    Please don't tell me the BULL. Shaven-head in the Police force is never universal.In England Sikhs in the Police force never shave their head and beards and also wear their traditional turbans.

  • Anthony Akua 10 years ago

    Shut the fuck up you are out-moded and corrupt as the Ghana Police i visited New York and saw a Police dectective with natty dreadlocks,there is no code of ehics for the way you grow your hair if you want to join the Police f ...
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  • Tau Gowon 10 years ago

    You dumb people are truly assholes. The white man has sucked all your resourses raped and enslaved your folish black ases. Then he comes dress in suits and evil millatary ways you follow. You continue to serve a white god and ...
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  • Kofitse 10 years ago

    It is unfair for the police department to discriminate against Rastafarians because of their belief what about females who wear wigs or individuals who don't shave because of medical or religious reason. What rules states tha ...
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  • CAPTAIN BONNEY PEE,U.S.MILITARY 10 years ago

    Some of you in Ghana need to travel outside and learn.I have been in the U.S.Military 16 years.I travelled all over the world,even to Australia.There is no country that enlists RASTAFARIANS in the Military,Police,or Guards.YO ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 10 years ago

    Captain Bonney, you are a cold blooded liar, I have lived in the United States of Americe for more than 40 years, I repeat, Captain Bonney is a stone cold blooded LIAR!

    Policemen and policewomen in New York City wear their ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Yes the uk police does accommodate people of all backgrounds including rastas. They even allow special uniforms.
    When you travel,don't just use your eyes, use yours ears and ask why before you try to pass it on as wisdom

  • Samson 10 years ago

    When shall we begin thinking on our own as a people. it seems we believe anything US or UK or from the whiteman is the standard.

  • Jerome 10 years ago

    Samson why not! Are we not learning from the whites to get to their levels? Or are we learning from the Arabs? You see, some of u guys don't even make sense at all when u speak. Watch all over the world and compare countries ...
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  • Natural Mystic 10 years ago

    "Capitan", kindly read my comment with the subject line "True Rastas work for no CIA". I do agree with you that travelling outside one's comfort zones may help one to learn but it is also said that "you can take the nigger ou ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    WE DO NOT HAVE RASTAFARIANS IN THE CANADIAN SECURITY FORECES.
    GHANA SHOULD NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE IN CONSIDERING RECRUITMENT OF RASTAFARIANS IN OUR SECURITY FORCES.
    EVEN RASTAFARIANS ARE IN CONSTANT VARIANCE WITH THE POLICE ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    The PRO admitted he does not know why you need to have a hair cut. The problem is, that is not the only thing the police does without knowing why they do it.Arresting of wee smokers is another one. why do you do it. The claim ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    correction

  • STUPID ATUGUBA . 10 years ago

    Thanks Captain Bonney,advice Akosua Tabuwaa for her strange comment .

  • Esi B. 10 years ago

    That would look obscured and can't enforce our laws, simple

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father, who was a minister, if they could discuss the use of the car.

    His father took him to his study and said to him, "I'll make a deal with you. You bring you ...
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  • Asou 10 years ago

    Prince Willie, where do you get you stories from? They are apt and nice.
    Good guy!!

  • Natural Mystic 10 years ago

    A trues Rasta who by the dictates of his religion, and his general demenour, will neither join a police force/service nor an army.

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY DRIVE ARE AT RISK OF KILLING THEMSELVES IN CAR ACCIDENTS. JUST LIKE SMOKING IS TO CANCER.....THE 3 LEADING CAUSES OF DEATHS IN NORTH AMERICA ARE CANCER, HEART DISEASE, ACCIDENTS....DEY THERE...

  • STUPID ATUGUBA . 10 years ago

    Akosua Tabuwaa read Capt.Bonney comment and next time come out with good comment.We are talking about Gh police force and your'e comparing England to Gh.

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    You want Akosua to read captain bonney bcos we cannot compare gh to uk. did you notice bonney was also talking about america and other countries. There nothing wrong with using others as a benchmark to learn from them. But yo ...
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  • Bob Martins 10 years ago

    Every organisation has his Laws and Regulations.The Police Service are the first unit of people to call on in the society, they are there to help the people.It is not about our believe or religion, but personal presentation. ...
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  • Bettina 10 years ago

    Please if by low Rastafarian can not joint the polce bcos they need to cut ther heir ok , but classification fasts Arran and indecent people be carefully bcos hv many people they are not fasts Arran and they are very correcte ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    This is still a backward explanation. Shave is never universal but in the case of Ghana and other African countries it is the Colonial imperialist influence on the service. An honest and bribe-taking-free Rastafarian police i ...
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  • Natural Mystic 10 years ago

    Massa, the days of rules are rules and you cannot do anything about them atre gone. Well at least in societies where the national constitution reigns supreme. A mixed race school (but with predominantly white kids) expelled a ...
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  • IJAHMAN 10 years ago

    In Ghana Bankers are not allowed to wear bear or to be rastafarians or to grow dreadlocks.I was in the USA 2010 and i visited a bank in NEW JERSEY and to my surprise the bank manager was in suit wearing a full grown dreadlock ...
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  • RAS CARFE 10 years ago

    LOOK AT THESE BLACK PEOPLE BEHAVING LIKE WHITES. SO CALLED EDUCATED PEOPLE MUST LEARN THE HISTORY BEHIND THE RASTAFARI MOVEMENT AND STOP MAKING STATEMENTS THAT ENCOURAGES WHIE SUPREMACY. THE HATE FOR RASTAFARI STARTED FROM TH ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    In practice you will conclude that a Rastafarian can not be a police of a soldier with his or her dreadlocks on. Imagine you being caught by the hair by some branch of tree during battle. Also imagine two criminals getting ho ...
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  • WOMAAME TWE 10 years ago

    RASTA BUN FIRE ON ALL POLICE BWOY, RASTA IS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS SELASSIE I

  • GAYS ARE VICE IN GHANA.. 10 years ago

    BUT YOU HAVE GAYS AS VICE PRESIDENT WHY NOT RASTA....

  • ROMEO 10 years ago

    DESCENT PROFESSION, SIR.

  • Ras Kwasi 10 years ago

    De baba men nuh like de dreadlocks man
    De dreadlocks man nuh like de baba man, no
    De po-lice men nuh like de dreadlocks man
    De dreadlocks man nuh like de po-lice man, no

    So war inna babylon, tribal war inna Babylon

  • A to the Y 10 years ago

    This igp and his newly appointed staff are all confused. Can there be a quick reshuffling for progress. How long are we going to be stuck to one thing and not wanting to let it go mother Ghana. It's a shame who our igp is and ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    MANY ARE INTO DRUGS.
    PLEASE,DON'T LET THEM INTEGRATE INTO THE SECURITY FORCE,BUT RATHER MONITOR THEM WITH UTMOST SCRUTINY AND CAREFULNESS.
    YOU WOULD END UP PROMOTING DRUG TRAFICKING,IF YOU DARE RECRUIT THEM INTO THE SECURIT ...
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  • THE WATCHMAN 10 years ago

    RASTAFARIANS ARE LAZY PERSONS WHO DONT WANT TO CARRY ANY RESPONSIBLTIES IN SOCIETY SO THEY CANT BE IN ANY RESPONSIBLE PROFESSIONS LIKE BANKING,LAW,MILITARY,TEACHING,FOOD AND NUTRITION,AVIATION,MEDICINE ETC.THEY BECOME RASTA S ...
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  • FUCK WATCHMAN 10 years ago

    FUCK YOU WATCHMAN!!!...ONLY AN IGNORANT FOOL WILL MAKE SUCH FUCKED UP STATEMENT. NO TRUE RASTAFARIAN WILL JOIN ANY POLICE FORCE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER. LOCKED HAIR DOES NOT MAKE ONE A RASTA . REAL RASTAS ARE GOOD ...
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  • chief 10 years ago

    There are policewomen with long different hair-do styles doing marvellous work for mother Ghana. If you compare these policewomen hair to these rastafarians' hair there is no difference.