Guidance and Counselling students of the University of Education, Winneba, have suggested to the Ghana Police Administration to provide courses on stress relieving for police personnel.
The students said this in a paper delivered by Miss Emma Robertson on their behalf at a seminar they organised for Police personnel in the Effutu Municipality.
The seminar was under the theme “Stress and stress management among police officers for effective policing”.
The programme was to create awareness among the police on the realities of stress, enhance their knowledge on the positive and negative effects of occupational stress and to enable them manage
stress at their work places.
The students said police personnel by the nature of their work go through stress and urged the Police Administration to employ professional counsellors to assist police personnel to manage stress.
They also suggested that stress management or copping should be part of the police training curriculum.
Dr Theophilus Chukwuemeka Okolie, a clinical co-ordinator at the Winneba Government Hospital, said if the suggestion was accepted it would help address stress related problems that police personnel faced.