Chief Executive of the Institute for Security, Disaster, and Emergency Studies, has described the fine imposed on the Ghana Police Service for negligence of duty, as not deterrent enough.

Speaking in an interview on JoyNews’ Midday News on Tuesday, Dr. Ishmael Norman, said the fine imposed on the three officers is too small.

“I think the Court seeing that harm has been caused and the people need to be recompensed, I like that because it’s one of the few occasions where the Court is actually finding the Police culpable. However, the amount of money that the court has awarded is very low,” he said.

His comments were in relation to a fine of GHC¢320,000 awarded to Police officers for negligence, by a Cape Coast High Court over the shooting of three persons in a taxi cab.

The officers who were pursuing goat thieves from Twifo Praso fired into the thieves’ car. A stray bullet hit a moving taxi occupied by a couple and their daughter in the process.

The bullet hit and killed Josephine Owusuaa Aboagye, injured her husband, Aboagye Okyere, and a student who was enroute to school.

Dr. Norman explained that an individual between the ages of 18 or 25 won’t be able to survive on the amount till retirement.

He, therefore, called on the court system, judges and lawyers in the country to “begin to think that black lives actually do matter.”

The Security Analyst noted that fining the Police Service such a paltry sum will not have any effect on them.

“When you award so small an amount of money, they don’t see the weight and the Police organisation doesn’t see why it is necessary for them to improve the quality of the people they recruit in the first place,” he added.