The Ghana Police Service has launched a major new initiative to improve its intelligence-led policing capabilities through a specialized training program run in collaboration with the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
- The Ghana Police Service has started a new intelligence-led policing initiative in partnership with the FBI.
- FBI instructors are currently training Ghanaian officers to better combat transnational crime and violent extremism.
- The intensive ten-day program focuses on intelligence gathering, undercover operations, threat identification, and proactive crime prevention.
- Officers from key police departments are participating to help modernize Ghana’s law enforcement and tackle complex criminal networks.
The Ghanaian US Embassy, today, via x, relayed that a squad of specialist instructors from the Federal Bureau of Investigation is presently facilitating an educational curriculum for the Ghana Police Service, designed to enhance their capacity to mitigate the threats posed by transnational criminal syndicates and violent extremist organizations.
Speaking alongside the Inspector General of Police, the U.S. Embassy’s Acting Deputy Chief of Mission stressed that the training provides “real-world law enforcement tools that protect lives and national security; a secure and stable environment promotes economic growth and creates conditions where citizens and businesses can thrive.”
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The ten-day intensive Police Intelligence Operations Training Programme is intended to improve the skills of Ghanaian police officers in key operational areas such as intelligence gathering, undercover operations, threat identification, operational planning, and proactive crime prevention.
The programme brings together officers from the Police Intelligence Directorate and the Criminal Investigations Department as part of a larger effort to modernize law enforcement and strengthen Ghana’s ability to combat increasingly complex criminal networks operating both domestically and throughout West Africa.
As seen on GraphicOnline, Inspector-General of Police Christian Tetteh Yohuno praised the training as an important step toward positioning the Ghana Police Service as a contemporary, intelligence-driven agency capable of proactively preventing and disrupting criminal activity.
“Indeed, the vision of the Ghana Police Service is to become a world-class police institution, steadily performing under a transformational leadership framework that prioritises professionalism, discipline, innovation, and service to the people,” the IGP stated.
The IGP also noted that participants in the training are expected to return as “force multipliers” capable of improving intelligence collection, strengthening analytical capacity, and improving inter-agency coordination in the security sector.
