To improve the job knowledge of UG security staff, the Performance, Education and Training Unit (PET), of UG’s Human Resource and Organisational Development Directorate (HRODD), organised a two-day security service training.
The training included interactive PowerPoint presentations on the topics, ‘Security Management and Crime Prevention,’ ‘Intelligence Gathering and Security Operations,’ ‘Patrolling/ Surveillance Techniques,’ ‘Note Taking/ Technical Security Report Writing’ among others.
The presentations were facilitated by a team from the National Police Training School.
Dr. Yvonne Ayerki Lamptey, Director of HRODD, in her welcome address anticipated that the skills and knowledge acquired will be practiced effectively. She also urged supervisors present to impart the knowledge they learn to their subordinates.
Chief Superintendent Razak Basukuma, second-in-command at the National Police Training School (NPTS) gave short remarks on the importance of the training both for supervisors and their subordinates. He said, “Today, you have been presented with an opportunity to upgrade your knowledge”. He encouraged participants to make good use of the training to better their job skills.
Discussing the topic, ‘‘Security Management and Crime Prevention’’, Insp. Kwaku Amponsah-Okyere enumerated techniques on identifying and managing threats from occurring or getting out of hand. He cited the ‘Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah hall clashes’, as an example of a threat and suggested ways such occurrences could be avoided.
He encouraged the security team to devise strategies to identify and protect themselves from both known and unknown threats.
He further stated that these strategies should be updated to suit current threats in other to ensure its effectiveness.
Touching on crime prevention, Insp. Amponsah-Okyere suggested some measures including punishing offenders, public education on crime, planting informants and using CCTV devices. He assured the trainees of the efficacy of these time-tested measures as they have proven to help manage crime on the University campus.
ASP. Festus Addo in charge of Logistics at the National Police Training School, during his presentation on the topic, ‘Intelligence Gathering and Security Operations’ , discussed how to strategically gather information needed to unravel crime.
He disclosed that one of the effective ways to gather information is to build relationships with various stakeholders including students. Students, he added, hold valuable information which will be very useful to the Security team.
ASP. Addo also implored participants to analyse information gathered with the “5w’s and 1h rule” (why, where, who, which, when, how), to fact check the credibility of the source as well as the information gathered to protect their integrity.
Other facilitators from the National Police Training School included DSP. Sunrise Adika, DSP. Emmanuel Baba Asabilla, Insp. Florence Aba Eshun and Insp. Joseph Addae (FPU).
Also present at the training were Idrissu Seidu, Ag. Security Coordinator, UG; Mr. Godfred Amoah Head, PET, HRODD; UG Security officers and other Police officers from the National Police Training School.
