Law School To Train Police Prosecutors

The Ghana Law School would from January next year begin to train Police Prosecutors to equip them to successfully discharge their duties.

The training would include refresher courses in criminal law, court procedures and the deduction of evidence. The Acting Director of the Law School, Mr. Ansah Asare said this to journalists after a delegation of the General Legal Council and some Senior Lecturers of the School paid a courtesy call on the Inspector General of Police, Nana Owusu-Nsiah. The delegation, led by the Judicial Secretary, Mr. E.A. Owusu-Ansah and a Senior Lecturer of the School, who represented the Chief Justice called on the IGP to congratulate him on his appointment and to wish him well in his new office.

Mr. Asare said the introduction of the course is to complement the training the Attorney General's Department and the Police Service provide for Police Prosecutors because it has been realised that they need refresher courses from time to time. He said they would start with 50 Prosecutors in January next year. Mr. Asare however said the Prosecutors are doing very well and must be commended as they are not Lawyers but are administering legal issues.

Expressing his appreciation, the IGP, Nana Owusu-Nsiah said there is the need to also allow Police Lawyers to go into private practice in order to keep them abreast with the act of prosecution as new trends of doing business were unfolding. He called for a closer collaboration between the Police and the Lawyers to facilitate prosecutors' work in the administration of the law.