{"id":233046,"date":"2026-05-12T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-intelligence-led-policing-a-necessary-shift-not-an-option\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:31:57","slug":"ghana-intelligence-led-policing-a-necessary-shift-not-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-intelligence-led-policing-a-necessary-shift-not-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Intelligence-Led Policing &#8211; a Necessary Shift, Not an Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Ghana Police Service&#8217;s renewed emphasis on intelligence-led policing, backed by collaboration with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), could not have come at a more critical time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">As crime becomes increasingly sophisticated, transnational and technology-driven, the old reactive approach to policing is simply no longer enough to safeguard lives and property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, who was at the opening of a 10-day Police Intelligence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605120422.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 Ghana Police Service&#8217;s renewed emphasis on intelligence-led policing, backed by collaboration with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), could not have come at a more critical time. As crime becomes increasingly sophisticated, transnational and technology-driven, the old reactive approach to policing is simply no longer enough to safeguard lives and property. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,54318,257,14453,16420,13283,254],"class_list":["post-233046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-intelligenceled","tag-news","tag-option","tag-policing","tag-shift","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233046","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=233046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}