A New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will
ensure that two Prisons Service hospitals are constructed to cater for the
health needs of personnel in the service, acting General Secretary of the NPP,
John Boadu, has stated.In a bid to rejuvenate the security services in
the country, the party says it will provide several incentives to encourage the
personnel to execute their duties effectively.
According to Mr Baodu, the
party will “build two Prison Service hospitals, one each in the Southern and
Northern sectors of the country”.
This will be in addition to two other
“new police hospitals at Sunyani and Bolgatanga”.
The party has already
announced plans of establishing one military hospital in the Northern
Region.
The party has promised that under an NPP government, “Ghanaians
will feel safe on the streets and in their homes. Ghanaians will go about their
daily business in the secure knowledge that their personal properties and lives
are safe under an NPP Government”.
Mr Boadu further explained that an NPP
government would ensure that all “our security personnel are properly trained,
properly-resourced, and provided with incentives to enable them discharge
professionally”.
The party also hopes to do the following to rejuvenate
the security services:
1. Roll out a National Barracks Regeneration
Programme that will invest in rehabilitating and upgrading living quarters of
all our security services across the country
2. Review and restructure
recruitment into our security services to stamp out the fraud and cronyism that
have been introduced into this process by the Mahama-led NDC
government
3. Continue to recruit additional personnel, with increased
recruitment of women, into our security services, and, for the police, we work
towards the target of meeting the U.N. ratio of 1:500 police to
civilians
4. Provide the police with modern communication and policing
equipment
5. Build 2 new police training schools
6. Harmonise and
standardise police training across the country, and improve and resource all
police training institutions, including the command college at Winneba
7.
Complete the third phase of the 37 Military Hospital project, as well as upgrade
its equipment to meet modern medical challenges, having constructed the second
phase
8. Continue local and foreign training for Armed Forces
personnel
9. Commit to adjusting upwards peacekeeping allowances in line
with new increases by the UN
10. Ensure that personnel who serve in UN
Peacekeeping Missions are paid at their duty post
11. Take immediate
steps to decongest our prisons, and introduce a system to separate remand and
convicted inmates, reform pre-trial detention, prison management, sentencing,
including noncustodial sentences, social integration, and health facilities for
prisoners, prison officers, and civilian employees
12. Offer competitive
remuneration to enable the Security Services attract the best
personnel
13. Provide each district with a Fire Service station where
none exists. Where there is one, the NPP will upgrade it as required to meet the
minimum standards expected of a modern, well-equipped fire station,
and
14. In recognition of their multiple roles, and also as part of the
NPP’s aim to grow rapidly our tourism and hospitality sector, we shall pay
particular attention to the training and incentivisation of the personnel of the
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