Kumasi Police MTTD participants pose with Ecowas Brown Card officials after the training course
The Police MTTD of Kumasi and Techiman have received separate orientation programmes on the ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme.
Over 150 police MTTD officers benefitted from these two programmes
which form part of a nationwide orientation for the MTTD for 2018 on the
country’s two main international road
corridors: namely Tema to Paga
and Elubu to Aflao.
In his presentation, the Chief Executive/General Secretary of the
Ghana National Bureau of ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme, Mr. Patrick
K. Agyekum, told the police officers that Regional Integration and
Trade Facilitation are the bases upon which the ECOWAS Brown Card
Insurance Scheme was established.
He explained that the Brown Card Insurance Scheme serves
as a common insurance cover against Third Party liabilities visiting
motorists might incur while they drive across various national
boundaries of ECOWAS, and therefore meets the requirements under Ghana’s
law with respect to the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act,
1958.
He emphasised the need for police to ensure that foreign vehicles
using Ghanaian roads have valid ECOWAS Brown Card insurance cover for
the third party risks they may encounter while driving in the country.
He also informed the police that in the event of a road accident
involving a foreign-registered vehicle from any ECOWAS member-state,
they must get confirmation of the existence of a valid ECOWAS Brown Card
Insurance cover, prior to the accident, from the Ghana National Bureau
before releasing such vehicle to the owner or driverHe said this is to ensure that victims of cross-border road accidents get fair and prompt compensation.
In his opening remarks at Kumasi, Chief Superintendent Frank
Abrokwa-Divisional Commander of Kumasi MTTD, thanked the Ghana National
Bureau for organising the training session.
He noted that training police officers has long-term benefits to
stakeholders and motorists at large. He said the training programme
will go a long way to help the police to effectively handle foreign
vehicles in Ghana, especially in the event of an accident. He advised
his personnel to pass on the information and knowledge acquired to their
colleagues who did not take part in the programme.
At Techiman, the Divisional Commander of MTTD, DSP Andrews Kofi
Okonengye, also expressed appreciation to the Ghana National Bureau of
the ECOWAS Brown Card insurance scheme for another opportunity to
organise a training programme on the scheme for the MTTD. He recalled
that the event was the 3rd of such trainings organised by the
Ghana National Bureau for officers at Techiman in which he has
participated. He said the information gained will enable the police to
efficiently carry out their investigations into cross-border accidents,
in addition to enabling them to assist motorists and victims of such
cases of accidents.
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