A study on an ethics-training program in Ghana shows a positive impact on police officers’ values, beliefs, and propensity to engage in unethical behavior.
Police officers are important service providers, but are perceived as highly corrupt in Ghana. The most recent issue of The Takeaway reports on the implementation and evaluation of a two-day training program for traffic police in Ghana that attempted to both reactivate officers’ motivations to serve the public and create a new shared identity of “agents of change.” The author, Dr. Danila Serra, is one of the researchers who designed and implemented the program. She is also a faculty member in the Texas A&M Economics Department and the Bush School of Government and Public Service.
The study found that the program improved officers’ values and beliefs, and reduced their willingness to engage in unethical behavior nearly two years later. You can read about it in “Police Officers as Service Providers and Agents of Change: the Impact of an Ethics Training Program in Ghana.”
The Takeaway is a publication of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University.
