Atuguba, R. A.2012-03-292017-10-142012-03-292017-10-142008http://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/415Crime may not be rising but the public feels unsafe with the increasing sophistication associated with violent crimes. The fear comes not only from criminals and their sophisticated tactics but also the very people paid and clothed with tax payers’ money to protect the public and the state-the police. As in much of colonized Africa, policing in Ghana has hardly changed half a century after independence. It remains steeped in the vicious mindset that informed policing as instituted by the British colonialists.enGhanaPoliceArticle