Ghana: Government to Purge Police Service

President John Agyekum Kufuor has vowed to hose down the Police Service due to the recent public disquiet about the Service especially in relation to cocaine scandals.

He noted that the image of the Police had been brought into disrepute by the uncertain handling of cases of narcotic trafficking in the country on the part of police personnel, for which reason the government is "determined that the Service was purged of this stigma that undermines its raison d'être".

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