Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), a private broadcasting station, on Wednesday offered the Ghana Police Service a one year promotion package worth 750 million in support of its crime prevention awareness campaign.
The package comprises TV and public announcements, awareness messages, press releases, crime watch and alert programmes, crime prevention tips, police public relations statements, promotion of Police endowment fund and other activities.
Mr Talal Fatal, Managing Director of Metro TV who announced the offer to the police administration in Accra, said the package is to bolster efforts being made by the Police to maintain law and order. It forms part of Metro TV's social responsibility to prevent crime.
"We should not look on as bystanders, and expect the Ghana Police Service to accomplish this turn-around on their own. We owe it to society, our families and the nation to extend a hand", he said.
Mr Fatal said private business, as a major source of livelihood, thrives best in an atmosphere of peace, order and stability and that the society should aid the police in its quest to rid the country of crime.
"Simply put, we have to put the police service in business so that it can put us back in business."
He said Metro TV would be responsible for the production of all TV commercials and broadcasting to support police programmes.
The package, he said, would immediately cover the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions and would be extended to the Western, Central, Volta and Eastern regions by the end of the year.
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ernest Owusu-Poku, commended Metro TV for the package describing it as a "laudable gesture" that should be emulated by all media organisations to support the fight against crime.
He said the offer would enable the police to educate the public and promote a better understanding of police work.
"We all owe it as a duty to rid the country of crime. Police alone cannot do this. All should help to check the incidence of crime."
