Dansoman District Police Station adjudged Africa’s best

The Dansoman District Police Station has powered Ghana to be named Africa’s topmost country with the best police station.

Ghana scored an average of 60.64 per cent to beat Kenya (58.63) and Cameroon (58.34) to second and third respectively.

While Nigeria came fourth with 52.02 per cent, Benin and Liberia placed fifth and sixth respectively at the 2012 edition of the Police Stations Visitors’ Week (PSVW) held in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dansoman Police Station succeeds Nima Police Station, which won the accolade in 2011.

The PSVW is an event held annually across five continents, where different police organizations and community members visit their local police stations and use the same assessment kits and indicators to score the stations within a particular period.

In all, 343 police stations from the continent were considered with Ghana presenting 12 police stations while Nigeria presented the highest of 262.

The assessment indicators used were community orientation, physical conditions, equal treatment, transparency and accountability and detention conditions.

“We keep here clean and we have a place where people can now sit while they are waiting to be attended to,” said the Dansoman Police Station Officer, Chief Inspector Mark Kweku Addo.

The District Commander, DSP Susan Adjei, said they will not relent in making further progress “so before they come they will see another improvement”.