The Center of Posterity Interest Organization (COPIO), a civil society organisation, has called on government to retool the country’s security agencies to help tackle emerging national security threats in the country.
Mr Mustapha Maison Yeboah, the Executive Director of COPIO, said there was direct relationship between internal security and national development, hence the need for government to provide the security services with the needed logistics to help fight crime effectively.
He was speaking as part of the “I am Aware Project”, a non-partisan citizen empowerment tool that collects, analyzes, archives and disseminates user-friendly socio economic data on the state of public goods and service delivery in the country.
The second phase of the four-year project, being implemented by COPIO in the Techiman and Nkoranza Municipalities and funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in the United States through the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), is expected to end this year.
It is aimed at empowering citizens, particularly the poor and vulnerable, to improve their awareness and engagement with duty-bearers about public service delivery in order to make them more accountable and responsive.
Mr Yeboah said development projects were best executed under a secured and conducive environment devoid of unnecessary uprisings.
He said security agencies needed substantial investments in personnel development and various logistics including patrol vehicles, crime prevention gears and modern communication gadgets to tackle complex security challenges.