The Ghana Police Service has revealed that it has made a policy to serve food to its personnel deployed to enforce the government’s restrictions on movement in some parts of the country, so as to avoid the situation whereby they put their lives at risk of contracting COVID-19 while searching for food to buy while on duty.
As part of measures to prevent a further spread of COVID-19, the government restricted movement in certain parts of the country for two weeks, including Kasoa, Tema, Accra, and Kumasi, which took effect from Monday, 30 March 2020.
The Police Administration, in a statement on Monday, 6 April 2020, said: “It has monitored reports about rotation provided for its officers deployed to enforce restrictions on movement and wishes to state that the administration has made a policy to serve food to its officers.”
It noted that its decision is aimed at avoiding the situation where police officers would “roam in this critical time, leaving their duty points to search for food, water or soft drink”.
“Some of the duty points are situated at places where officers cannot find food or water to buy”, noting that “the frontline officers will not jeopardise the environment by taking risks of contracting and transmitting the coronavirus disease”.
It is also meant to “discourage officers from taking cooked food from members of the public without the approval of their commanders so that the officers’ feeding can be properly monitored for health and safety reasons.”
The police also encouraged the general public to “cooperate with security services and stay home as directed” and urged “the media, opinion leaders and all who have the opportunity of speaking to others” to support the stay-at-home directives of the government to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana.
– Classfmonline.com
