The Ghana Police Service: A Practical Agenda for Reform

Abstract

The cultural and historic context in which an institution develops makes the institution. The cultural and historic context includes both the formal (legal, administrative, bureaucratic, political economy) framework and the informal relations, processes and interactions within and without the institution. The combination of these defines the institution. Most Ghanaians are dissatisfied with the institution called the Ghana Police Service (GPS). Survey upon survey and various Commissions of Inquiry Reports have shown this to be true. If we are dissatisfied with it, we need to reform it.