2,000 Police Personnel To Monitor NPP Presidential Primaries

As the NPP, prepares to elect a flagbearer for the 2016 general elections, the Ghana police service is deploying 2,000 policemen to the 275 polling stations designated for the presidential primaries on Saturday. 

The policemen will be deployed to at least groups of five for each polling centre on the Election Day.  

This will include patrol and stand-by and 1,375 policemen for the polling stations and others at the NPP headquarters, regional centres and the declaration centre. 

Deputy Commissioner of police in charge of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, David Ampah Benin, who disclosed this, said regional police commanders will be in commend of operations within their jurisdiction, while tactical operations on the ground at the polling stations will be overseen by officers in charge not below the rank of superintendent. 

DCOP Ampah Bennin said the police would be employing a tactical operation that would involve a three-tier deployment strategy. 

141,432 delegates are expected to cast their ballots for their preferred candidates from 7am to 3pm.

The delegates include ten national executive members, 40 members of the council of elders, 27 past national officers, 45 members from external branches and 432 regional executives among other delegates. 

GBC