BKA TO ORGANISE TRAINING COURSE ON "POLICE TACTICS AND METHODS".

The Federal Criminal Investigation Department of Germany (BKA) is organizing a five-day training course, on ''Police Operational Tactics and Methods'' from the 16th to 20th March, 2009. This is the third in a series of training courses organized since the BKA opened its office in Ghana on October 15, 2007. The course is an inter-disciplinary exercise with selected officers from the Ghana Police Service, NACOB and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS). The methods and tactics to be taught can be applied in the operations of any of the three participating services.
The participants will be taken through criminal police and prosecution procedures as well as measures to avert danger.
Three months after the opening of BKA office in Accra in early December, 2007, a delegation of the BKA, headed by its President, Jörg Ziercke, visited Ghana. During this visit, Mr. Ziercke met with the Minister of the Interior, the leadership of NACOB and Police Headquarters. On the occasion of this visit, NACOB was handed over an electric power generator funded by the BKA to ensure the consistency of its operational readiness at their main office in Accra.
It is note worthy that illicit drug trafficking and moneys accrued from drugs constitute a tremendous global threat and, hence, is a multilateral task. It is against this background that the German government is vigorously pursuing the anti- narcotics and criminal investigations co-operation agenda in close co-operation with the Ghanaian Government.
The commitment of the Ghanaian government to tackle this menace is evidenced in the new President's inaugural speech on January 7, 2009, his Sectional Address to the nation and the forthcoming joint Ghana-UNODC-Conference in Accra.
Since the opening of the BKA office in Ghana the following cooperation projects have already been undertaken: invitation of one NACOB official each in 2008, 2009 and 2010 to attend a 6 months training course in anti-drug investigation techniques including German language training, handing over of six (6) Fax-Telephone combination machines to facilitate the opening of additional offices in the NACOB decentralization process in 2008, the organization of a BKA Crime Suppression training course for Ghanaian anti- narcotics investigators with trainers and instructors from Germany ( BKA ) in Accra in July 2008, and the organization of a BKA training course “Operational Analysis” with participants from NACOB and several units of the Ghana Police Service in December 2008.