Head of the Local Government Service, Dr Nana Ato Arthur, has directed metropolitan, municipal and district coordinating directors in the Greater Accra Region to call their city guards and task force officers to order.
He also charged them to investigate and expel city guards and task force officers engaged in extortion and misconduct within their various jurisdictions.
“Between now and December 2018, I want you as Coordinating Directors (CDs) to regulate the activities of City Guards and Task force officers through the engagement of their leaders to let them understand their role as required by law.”
Dr Arthur gave the directive when he met the coordinating directors of the region at his office in Accra at the weekend.
The meeting was also for the coordinating directors to share best practices on management of the activities of the city guards and task force officers. He recounted series of complaints received from public officers, chiefs and market women, especially from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area on misbehaviours of city guards and task force officers of assemblies whose work was becoming a nuisance.
Dr Arthur said the extortions and misbehaviours of the city guards and task force officers were putting the names of the assemblies and by extension government into disrepute.
In the light of the above he charged the coordinating directors to call them to order with immediate effect.
He further urged the assemblies to strictly monitor the duty schedules of these officers indicating the locations of assignment.
They are also to be provided with nametags to ensure proper supervision, he added.
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