Soldier who shot and killed at Ejura will walk a free man

He added “What they have is actually based upon Article 13 (2) of the 1992 Constitution, when you use force if you life is threatened as a Police officer, some body’s else’s, the defence of property, control riot and suppress insurrection.

“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.

“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 .

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 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.

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

Dr Norman said “I think the IGP is confused about critical decision making at the sight of an event..

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