Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president, has given the Ghana Police Service assurances that the government’s move toward digitalisation will equip them with more sophisticated instruments to enhance their policing, benefiting society as a whole.
The Vice President said the digital drive has enormous benefits for all swathes of society, including the police service, who will now have access to cutting-edge policing tools used throughout the world to make their jobs easier. He was speaking at a donation of mobile devices and software packages to the police service.
“Policing in Ghana will be highly successful, and this is something that Ghana and the Ghana police X service will be proud of because we’re moving into an area where in reality many sophisticated nations are still attempting to get into that area,” Dr. Bawumia added.
On December 23, 2022, the local Ghanaian identity systems company Margins Group gave the Police Service mobile identification devices and a mobile device management system valued at over $2 million. The Vice President was speaking at the time.
These portable devices and systems will record people’ distinctive biometric and biographic data, confirm car registration, drivers licences, road worthiness certificates, and insurance, and compare the information to other databases, such as the National Identification
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