President Nana Akufo-Addo has sworn into office the Police Council, chaired by the Vice President of Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces tasked the council to suggest to him cogent counsel to help maintain law and order in the country, adding that the most important thing for a nation is the peace and safety of its people and its territorial integrity.
The Police Council, as set out in Article 203, is mandated to advise the President on matters of policy relating to internal security, including the role of the Police Service, budgeting and finance, administration and the promotion of officers above the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police.
The constitution has also given the council, whose membership includes the Minister of the Interior, the Attorney General and the Inspector General of Police, the power to make regulations or any other law for the effective and efficient administration of the Police Service.
“We all sleep, feeling safe when the men and women of the Police Service work to keep our nation and our streets safe. The issue of law and order is particularly germane at this time when indiscipline, lawlessness, and outbreaks of mob justice are threatening the rule of law. The Executive is determined to work with the Police Service to guarantee the security of citizens in accordance with the rule of law,†he assured.
The President charged the Council to turn around fortunes of the Police Service, which is suffering bruised public image with a  consistent ranking by the Centre for Democratic Governance's Afrobarometer, as one of the most perceived corrupt public institution in Ghana.