Assembling Community Policing: Peacekeeping and the Ghana Police Service’s Transformation Agenda

This article shows how peacekeeping experiences manifest in the Ghana Police Service’s (GPS) community policing strategies and practices often inconspicuous individualized ways. Peacekeeping constitutes an important element of what refers to as assemblage. However, emphasises that shape assemblage is conditioned by a wide range discourses beyond peacekeeping. Global national policies relating policing, including GPS’s own transformation agenda, local individual interpretations translations means, all play into formed. Thus, disentangles effects puts it context broader Ghana, based on in-depth interviews observations with police officers, mainly from headquarters Tesano, Accra. It concludes while several studies have shown has shaped Ghana’s security institutions sense role world, not been able chip away at or counteract deep deepening control country are subjected politicians. Arguing experience may profound transformative effect yet little if any impact terms depoliticising GPS more broadly, less sweeping conclusion. suggesting individualized, times deeply embodied experiences, also accurate conclusion empirically.