The workshop funded by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is meant to equip the officers with the requisite skills in managing professionally, issues involving children, especially those in conflict and in contact with the law.

Superintendent Mike Baah, Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), addressing the workshop said, matters on children were one of the priorities of the Ghana Police Service.

The Service has hence incorporated standard operating procedures (SOPs) of children in conflict with the law in their service instruction, he said.

 The SOPs, he indicated, guided every police officer to effectively handle issues concerning children, adding that, cases involving children were addressed differently from the ones involving adults.

 Supt. Baah called on the public to rally behind the police to protect children's rights and said this could be done by relaying information to the police whenever they suspected any act of child abuse, child labour and trafficking in the communities.

He said Ghana had already signed onto the United Nation's Right of the Child, which comprised; Children's Act 1998, the Human Trafficking Act and a Constitution seeking to protect children and stressed the urgent need to address child cases properly.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) David Agyemang Adjem, Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander urged participants to take the training seriously to be able to share lessons learnt with other police officers, for effective service delivery.