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Internet fraud becoming a threat in West Africa – IGP
Accra, Feb. 26, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr. Patrick
Acheampong, Inspector General of Police (IGP) said on
Tuesday internet fraud was becoming a great threat in West
Africa and called on governments to provide more money to
help curb the crime.
He said that the Ghana government was strengthening the
whistle blowers law to encourage people to give information
about the existence of such crimes in their communities.
The IGP was addressing a meeting held at the Kofi Annan
International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) to
received Mr Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister of Development
and Environment, who is on a three-day official state visit
to the country.
Mr Solheim’s visit to the centre was to enable him to know
how funds from his country were being used to promote
peacekeeping.
The meeting that centred on activities being organized by
the centre to promote peacekeeping brought together security
experts at the KAIPTC and a delegation from Norway who
accompanied the Minister as well as civilians.
Mr Acheampong said Ghana and other West African countries
were also prone to receiving proceeds of small arms from
countries involved in war and called for collaboration from
donor countries to help deal with it.
He said the Ghana Police Service was cooperating with other
police departments in West Africa to help fight organized
crime.
Commodore Albert Addison, Deputy Commandant at KAIPTC, who
gave an overview on the operations and training programmes
of the centre said it would train about 2773 military,
police and civilians by the end of 2008 and about 6500 by
2010.
He explained that the centre was not a military institution
but rather very collaborative with all stakeholders who
sought peace in the world and mentioned a wide scope of
people who benefited from the training not only from West
Africa but around the world, including NGOs and government
officials in addition to the police and military officers.
Commodore Addison said the Norwegian government was
interested in funding more civilian programmes and were
involved in the training of Media in Peace Support
Operations programme.
“Through the support of the Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs (NUPI) the KAIPTC has raised some
professionals and ran seminars for Media in Peace Support
Operations Course in November 2007 which trained military,
civilian and Gendarmerie officers for duties as
spokespersons, press officers and public information staff,
in peace support mission,” he said.
Mr. Solheim, who asked questions about some of the training
programmes and operations of the Centre, commended the
Centre for the achievements so far made.
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