{"id":185174,"date":"2024-11-23T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-igp-calls-for-police-media-partnership-to-avert-misinformation-during-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:46:13","slug":"ghana-igp-calls-for-police-media-partnership-to-avert-misinformation-during-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-igp-calls-for-police-media-partnership-to-avert-misinformation-during-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: IGP Calls for Police-Media Partnership &#8230;to Avert Misinformation During Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has urged the media to work closely with the police to curb misinformation and disinformation before, during and after the general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He said the management of information was crucial in this year&#8217;s elections as it was key to ensuring peace during the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The IGP, at a stakeholder engagement between the police and journalists, in Accra on Wednesday, stated that maintaining peace was non-negotiable, and would require the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411220201.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has urged the media to work closely with the police to curb misinformation and disinformation before, during and after the general election. He said the management of information was crucial in this year&#8217;s elections as it was key to ensuring peace during the polls. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660621:ff2014019e575ce2f6197f61698e8dcc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[45257,258,256,13451,6137,821,4508,4509,7412,32928,257,6020,22949,254],"class_list":["post-185174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-to","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-avert","tag-calls","tag-elections","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-igp","tag-misinformation","tag-news","tag-partnership","tag-policemedia","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660621:ff2014019e575ce2f6197f61698e8dcc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}