Police Officers Deployed To Guard Members Of Parliament Day And Night

The Ministry of Interior has with immediate effect, deployed a number of Police officers to serve as guards to Members of Parliament (MPs),day and night till the end of the year.

Due to the recent killings of Members Of Parliament,especially the death of Mfantseman MP,the government has decided to release some police officers to protect the MPs,on their campaign trips and also their families at home.

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This was disclose by the sector minister Ambrose Dery on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.

He revealed to the members of the Parliamentary Press Corps the new arrangement of every MP will being provided a police officer as a bodyguard,after an in-camera session .

According to the minister,he said “Due to the retooling of the security agencies by President Akufo-Addo, the country has more security agencies and security personnel available. So we have proposed that, between now and the end of the year, we are going to provide an additional 200 police personnel to be part of the parliamentary protection unit. We are making this arrangement to ensure that the unit attains the status of divisional police command to take care of the Members of Parliament as bodyguards.”

“Ideally to get to where we want to get to means that, subsequently, we should have 800 police added so that each MP will also have security at home in the day and night.”

Source: Ghanaarticles.com