The Inspector General of Police, Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, has called for the immediate eviction of unauthorised persons from police barracks across the country.
He said the situation where personnel had vacated their barracks and their rooms given out to their relatives while personnel slept on verandas and in the open would no longer be tolerated.
The IGP, therefore, demanded head counts and positive identification of real occupants of all police barracks to ensure that the occupants of the facility were legitimate.
Speaking to officers and men of the service in the Western Region during his maiden visit as IGP, he said these relatives who dwell in the police facilities cause mischief and used the facilities at the expanse of the police administration.
“We shall eject the ‘perchers’ and reassign such accommodation to personnel who are legitimately entitled to them,” he said.
He ordered the immediate removal of such people and said station officers, who knowingly or unknowingly permitted such situations would be sanctioned.
According to Mr Quaye, issues of accommodation, safety and better service condition were very important to the police administration and it would do everything possible to ensure they had a place to lay their heads.
He deplored the current standard at various police barracks across the country and called for immediate steps to halt is decline.
“In times past, the hallmarks of police barracks were clean surroundings and neatly trimmed hedges. It was, literally speaking, a taboo to spot anything filthy in police barracks or rented quarters,” he said.
Mr Quaye said today, the reverse was regrettably the case, and added that as the police administration was doing everything possible to improve accommodation it was important to take good care of the existing ones.
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