Akufo-Addo’s gov’t full of old people with colonial mentality

“Let me add that if you are dealing with unarmed demonstrators, then you will not go for live amour, but when you see somebody in the crowd holding a weapon which is capable of being used to kill or injure a Police officer, our laws permit us to use lethal force to eliminate that threat to the officers on duty.

“What people don’t know is ‘A’ may be armed, ‘B’ may not.

They are old people who think that the soldiers are the best weapons to use.” He further indicated that the current Inspector General of Police James Oppong-Boanoh, is confused when it comes to issues relating to critical decision making.

Normally, you will speak to the people through a megaphone or you shout if they can hear you and you spray water, you throw tear gas and then you use blank amour and eventually you use live amour,” he explained.

The Army doesn’t have it and the IGP, if he needs my help I am willing to help because as I sit here I actually have a paper that is proposing and suggesting a model critical decision model for West African police departments .

“He didn’t go for a second opinion, he didn’t do any kind of cross checking and gave the order to the Army and the Police .

I know he is responding to something I had raised already that the Police doesn’t have a critical decision making manual or model.

He said “Honourable Chair, you and I know that in very fluid situations, there are no hard and fast rules when the lives of the Police officers are threatened, that they should go through all these..

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