{
  "id": 17838784,
  "title": "GIS trains 146 officers in weapon safety and armoury management",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/gis-trains-146-officers-in-weapon-safety-and-armoury-management",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T18:46:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/gis-trains-146-officers-in-weapon-safety-and-armoury-management/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) recently held a two-day training seminar for 146 officers, focusing on weapon safety and armoury management. The initiative, spearheaded by the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Samuel Basintale Amadu, aims to bolster operational discipline, accountability, and national security. The training was crucial to protect officers, safeguard state-owned weapons, prevent firearm and ammunition loss, and maintain public confidence in the service.\n\nParticipating officers, including selected Regional and Sector Commanders, engaged in practical sessions on safe handling, storage, issuance, and tracking of firearms and ammunition. The seminar was organized in collaboration with experts from the Ghana Armed Forces, the Ghana Police Service, and the Small Arms Commission of Ghana.\n\nDCOP Isaac K. Asante, Armorer General of the Ghana Police Service, emphasized the importance of proper weapon management for professionalism, discipline, and operational readiness. He underscored the risks of weak inventory controls, poor record-keeping, and inadequate supervision of weapons. Asante urged commanders to maintain accurate registers, conduct regular inspections, and enforce strict procedures for firearm and ammunition issuance and return, ensuring every weapon and round of ammunition remained account for and traceable to a responsible officer.\n\nLieutenant Colonel Frank Tetteh-Kumah, Commander of the Ghana Armed Forces' 851 Ammunition and Explosives Ordnance Regiment, also addressed the participants, outlining standard operating procedures for military armoury management. He explained the Armed Forces' stringent systems for weapons and ammunition receipt, storage, issuance, inspection, maintenance, and disposal.",
  "summary": "The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has trained 146 officers in weapon safety and armoury management as part of efforts to strengthen operational discipline, accountability and national security.",
  "key_points": [
    "Ghana Immigration Service trains 146 officers in weapon safety and armoury management",
    "Training focuses on safe handling, storage, issuance, and tracking of firearms and ammunition",
    "Collaboration with Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Police Service, and Small Arms Commission"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}