Top cop stresses need for discipline

POLICE Commissioner Gari Baki has again stressed the need for discipline to be maintained in the police service.
And challenged the non-commissioned police officers (NCOs) in the Special Services Division (SSD) to take the lead in making sure discipline was maintained.
Mr Baki said this when he officiated at the closing of a three-week NCO development course at the SSD directorate at McGregor Police Barracks outside NCD last Friday.
The course was introduced in 1982 to develop other ranks and NCOs with potential to appropriate NCO ranks.
It was aimed to improve and strengthen skills and knowledge of frontline supervisors and better equip them in their roles as supervisors.
But the course was shelved due to lack of funding and availability of appropriate trainers to conduct such courses. This led to the decline of supervision, command and control within SSD.
“The SSD is the pride of the police service,” he said, adding that he had a long standing association with the division which was his first posting as a sub-inspector when he graduated from the Bomana Police College in the early 1970s.
He said at the time the discipline standard was very high.
Mr Baki was very critical about the lack of discipline within the SSD, especially the Mobile Squad Unit.