The Ghana Police Service has urged Ghanaians to stop tempting officers with money and later turn around to brand them as corrupt.
Speaking with JoyNews, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Police Service in charge of Private Service Organisation, DCOP Kojo Antwi Tabi, stated that Ghanaians are as corrupt as police if the perception is anything to go by.
According to Mr. Antwi Tabi, offenders arrested by the police often avoid being subjected to the laws of the land. The offenders are the first to offer bribes to the officers.
Sharing his statement;
The members of the public too must be blamed for their accusation that they are making. They are also equally guilty, because if you do not give the police money, he cannot take it from your pocket. If you commit an offence and the Police wants to charge you for court, you have to allow yourself to go through the due process.
At times, even when you go to court, the offense may not attract a serious fine. But when you tempt the police with money, when you do not want to go to court, then you are giving an unscrupulous Police chance to demand any amount of money, because you are not willing to allow yourself to go to court.
Mr. Antwi however quickly made it clear that the service continues to orient police against corruption and the culpable officers are punished accordingly.
We have been talking to them, we have been training them, and from time to time, those who are offenders, that is, the policemen who are found to have collected money or done something unlawfully, we normally punish them or dismiss them.
