International Journal of Applied Research in Social Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 7, September 2023 Musah, P.No. 193-206 Page 193 VIOLENT CRIME AND SECURITY CHALLENGES: ‘POLICE- PUBLIC BLAME GAME’ IN GHANA Halidu Musah 1 1 Department of Political Science and History, Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, P. O. Box WA 64, Wa, Ghana ______________________________________________________________________________ Corresponding Author: Halidu Musah Corresponding Author Email: tkhalid2001@yahoo.com Article Received: 19-08-23 Accepted: 14-09-23 Published: 27-09-23 Licensing Details: Author retains the right of this article. The article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the Journal open access page. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Violent crime such as robbery, assault, murder, sexual and domestic violence, undermine the economic and social rights of the people and distorts society’s attempts to achieve a decent and dignified life for all. To reverse the situation, in Ghana, the police have been charged with the primary responsibility of maintaining domestic security. The emerging development in the country, however, has been the blame game between the police and the public in respect of the perceived failure in security governance for the citizenry. This study examined this blame game using Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of Savannah Region as a case study. To be able to achieve the intended objective, 102 respondents were selected through both probability and non-probability sampling techniques in a convergent sequential mixed method design. Expert administered questionnaire and interviews were employed as the main methods of data collection. The study found that non-prosecution of criminals, bribery and corruption, police-criminal relationship, inadequate logistics and police personnel and stakeholders’ interference in security management, OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Applied Research in Social Sciences P-ISSN: 2706-9176, E-ISSN: 2706-9184 Volume 5, Issue 7, P.No. 193-206, September 2023 DOI:10.51594/ijarss.v5i7.565 Fair East Publishers Journal Homepage: www.fepbl.com/index.php/ijarss