*AN OPEN LETTER TO THE IGP*

First and foremost, I congratulate the Inspector General of Police, the POMAB, Regional Commanders, Crime Officers, NCOs and Men as well as all stakeholders for our swift decisions to scale up our efforts to combat the recent killing of police officers, attacks and lawlessness towards police officers which has also threatened the peace and order in the country.

I hope acts like vigilantism, hooliganism, "land-guardism" and armed robbery should be critically looked upon to be minimized in society.

Also, the welfare of the junior officers must be given priority to boost our morale.

Sir, I visited a certain police station to lodge a complain, after which I was referred to a female police detective to write my statement; to my dismay, the police woman's outfit and countenance could be likened to that of a "sex worker" (ASHAWO).

She could not properly hold the pen to write due to her long artificial nails. Her make-up, eye lash looks like that of an eagle. In brief, the dress code of that police woman is nothing to write home about.
Sir, kindly reconsider the enforcement of the *S I 91*. In case my colleagues have forgotten, we should kindly revise the S I 91 as attached below.

Sir, the dress code of most officers in this age is contrary to our own S I 91 as specified in the attached write up. Many policemen leave their beards unshaved with no excuse shaving. Some wear operational uniform with sergeant cap as well as dirty boots.

My major concern on appearance and turn out is basically on the female police officers. I pray your outfit places priority on to address this improper dressing of our police women.

Now a days, you will meet a police woman and her appearance both in uniform and civil clothing does not differ from street girls, slay Queens and sex hawkers (Ashawo). They wear skin tight uniforms and exposed their vital body parts. If is a skirt and browse uniform, it will be too short showing her tighs. Police woman will wear uniform with long braid hair which she can't even put on her head gear. They will wear uniform with heavy makeups of different colours, long eye lashes, red lipsticks, long artificial nails, some wear double, triple and even multiple earrings whiles in uniform. These acts become worse when they are in civil clothing. city hall wedding dress
The question is, who need to check all these appearance and turn outs??

Because of this bad dressing, many police women has become *"square pecks which cannot enter into the round hole"*, meaning, they are all running to the criminal investigation department and they don't befit there.

In my humble opinion, the Inspectorate are not up to task. I sincerely dare the Inspectorate to check the appearance and turn out of the men and women in order to instill sanity in the turn out of our noble profession.

I would like to bring to the attention of the administration that there is no where in the Regulations about uniform turn out that explicitly talks about police women and i think it calls for an amendment as the C I 76 did not talked about turn outs.

The wise is spoken to in short and in the mean time my prayers go to the departed comrades and my sincere condolences to the affected families and the entire service. Thank you.

*OHENEBA KWAKU ADUSEI-POKU JOHNSON*
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*SERVICE INSTRUCTIONS 91*

UNIFORM, TURN-OUT, ETC.
APPEARANCE AND TURN-OUT

1. All members of the service shall at all times be clean, have their clothing andequipment in proper order, shall be alert on duty, smart in their movements andrespectful in manner and bearing to their Senior Officers and the public. No member ofthe service shall appear in view of a public thoroughfare improperly dressed.

The headshall be kept short, and underlip shaved. The shaving of the upper lip is optional.Whiskers shall not be worn and the wearing of beard shall only be permitted on thewritten permission of the Senior Officer in charge of the Region.

2. No member of the service below the rank of ASP is permitted. Without the special sanction of the IGP to wear uniform on leave or on any other occasion except when actually on duty or when traveling to and from his quarters and his place of duty.

3. No uniformed member of the service shall, when performing duty inside a Police Station or Office, remove his apparel or any other article of uniform other than his cap and belt, whilst he is on duty.

If any particular duty is to he performed, the nature of
which makes it desirable or essential that the apparel should be taken off, this shall be done with the permission of the senior member of the service present, but shall in no
circumstances be done in public.

4. PLAIN CLOTHES
Members of the CID shall not normally wear uniform unless specially ordered to do so. Those in possession of uniform shall wear it on all Barracks and Room inspectionparades. Detective on appointment shall receive plain clothes allowance at the rate laid
down by the IGP and published in the Service Instruction. NCOs and men attached tothe CID on the recommendation of the Senior Officers, shall be eligible for plain clothes
allowance provided that their attachment is for a protracted period, or for at least one
month, provided also, that allowances are available.

5. No member of the uniform branch of the service shall wear plain clothes on dutyexcept on the orders of a Senior Officer or when required by the Officer in charge of his station to do so temporarily for the purpose of investigating crime.

6. DUTY ARMLETS
Duty armlets shall only be worn by Police when actually engaged on essential duties
inside or outside a Police Station. A member of the service engaged on essential beat,traffic, special point, or Police Station duty shall remove his armlet before proceeding to
his quarters. On being relieved and after reporting off duty at the police station, shallremove his duty armlet before proceeding to his quarters.

7. It shall be realized by all ranks that a member of the service is always to be
considered as or duty; the Duty Armlet is a special sign that the wearer is engaged on aparticular duty, the nature of which does not permit of any relaxation. i.e. when wearing duty armlet he is not permitted to smoke, loiter, enter any place licensed for the sale of
alcoholic liquor. Etc. except when his duty necessitates him so entering, idle, gossip orleave his beat or place of duty.

8. TROUSERS GENERAL POLICE
In respect of S P0’s and those in the inspectorate ranks, trousers shall be supported bythe regulation braces issued as part of Police equipment. They shall be worn in such a
manner that the creases at the front of the trousers fall into line with the center, and justtouch, the in-step of the hoot. The crease at the back shall be in line with the center ofthe heel of the hoot.

9. SHIRTS AND SINGLETS
There is no objection to members of the rank and File who are performing duty indoors, wearing under the tunic a white singlet in lieu of the grey flannel shirt issued, but in no circumstances shall a shirt or singlet he worn in such a manner that it is visible outsidethe uniform.

10. HEAD --DESS
All members of the service shall remove their head-dress when seated in Court andwhen they are giving evidence in Court. At any time when in Court they shall wear their head-dress, i.e. when swearing or taking the oath hut shall remove it immediately after
this and before giving his evidence.

11. FATIGUE DRESS
Fatigue dress shall consist of an old neat shirt or jersey and shorts and pair of trousers.Should it be necessary for a fatigue party to be provided for duty outside barracks, the
shirt shall be tucked in. No other dress shall be permitted for fatigue outside barracks.

12. APPROVED UNIFORM
No other design of the Police Uniform shall be worn by personnel except those approvedby the IGP.

*Source : S191 - Ghana Police Service*