According to the strong opinion of DCOP Kojo Antwi Tabi, who is the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Police Service in charge of Private Services Organisation, if the perception is anything to go by, the Ghanaian population is just as corrupt as the police.
During an interview with Joy News, the high-ranking police officer pleaded with Ghanaians not to bribe their policemen with money and then accuse the entire law enforcement agency of being corrupt. He made this request in the course of his remarks.
According to the DCOP Kojo Antwi Tabi, the majority of Gnanaisn who are arrested by the police for committing crimes and other offenses don’t want to be subjected to the laws of the land, so they are the first to offer bribes to the arresting officers in order to get off the hook. This is because they don’t want to be subjected to the laws of the land.
He said.
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 offense 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,”
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 to have extorted money or done something unlawfully, we normally punish them or dismiss them.”
According to the results of the most recent Afrobarometer survey, which was carried out by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD), 65 percent of Ghanaians believe that the Ghana Police Service is the most corrupt institution in the country at the present time. DCOP Kojo Antwi Tabi’s contentious submission follows the findings of this survey, which indicate that the Ghana Police Service is the most corrupt institution in the country.
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