Police to Deploy over 3000 Officers on New Year

The Accra Regional police command is deploying 3,200 officers to tighten security on the roads and residential areas during the 31st and New Year celebrations.

 

The police have identified motor accidents as a major challenge in their assessment of the ‘Operation Father Christmas’ programme launched to improve security during the festive season.

 

Addressing the media in Accra, regional commander COP Dr. George Akuffu Dampare said the police will employ innovative security measures to protect life and property.

 

For instance, check points would be mounted at vantage points to make sure drivers are not driving under the influence of alcohol that could lead to possible accident.

 

Temporary security post would also be erected at the beaches so that people can report any security concerns at the beach.

 

“We are also putting people at the various locations where events are taking place,” he added.

 

Dr. Akuffu Dampare noted, “There are other arrangements you put in place which the nature of it is such that we cannot share with the public because they are very confidential security arrangements, and we want to assure you that when we put all these things together we are going to have a very peaceful, quiet 31st night and a New Year.”

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Police to Deploy over 3000 Officers on New Year

Police Caution Public Against Firecrackers

The police have cautioned the public against the use of fire crackers during the festive season.

 

According to the police, the ban was still being enforced and that anybody caught using it during the festive season would be penalized.

 

 

This followed widespread use of fire crackers during Christmas in some areas despite the ban. Some people attributed the development to a relaxed supervision by the police.

 

 

However, the Director of Police Public Affairs Superintendent Cephas Arthur told Accra based Citi FM that the police were still enforcing the law. He said details and possible arrest will be determined after the festive season.

 

 

“The ban against the use of fire crackers is still being enforced. The fact that you hear some people firing it doesn’t mean that the warning has been thrown overboard.

 

 

Yes, whenever there are human beings and there are laws you will get people flouting them so the police are looking for people who are flouting them.”

 

 

“I think what is important is to intensify public education because some of these people fire them at the nooks and crannies of their residences and it is difficult finding police men at the time they are firing but the ones that we find firing, we will deal with them.”

 

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Police Caution Public Against Firecrackers

Ex-Soldier Arrested Over Police Recruitment Scam

An ex-soldier, Francis Kunlen, is in the grip of the law for collecting monies from prospective police recruits with the assurance to assist them to be enlisted into the Ghana Police Service.

The 58-year-old was arrested on the eve of Christmas at his hideout at a location near Sowutuom in Greater Accra.

The Brong Ahafo Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Christopher Tawiah told Graphic Online that Kunlen contacted some people who were interested in being enlisted and asked them to pay GhȻ2000 to enable him assist them to realise their dreams.

He said one of the victims whose money was ready rather contacted the police headquarters in Accra through telephone to ascertain whether the police was enlisting people to join the service.

The police headquarters in turn referred the matter to the Brong Ahafo Regional Police Command for further investigations.

The police teamed up with the prospective recruit who called Kunlen to inform him that his money was ready.

When he received the information, Kunlen sent a driver, Alex Ampadu to Sunyani to collect the money on his behalf but he (Ampadu) was arrested when he showed up to collect the money.

Ampadu thereafter led the police to arrest Kunlen who is now in police custody in Sunyani.

ASP Tawiah said pictures of Kunlen would not be made public since a parade would be organised for the public, especially those who have been duped by him to identify him for further investigation.

It would be recalled that a Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr Patrick Timbillah, who was Director General in charge of Police Human Resource Development in March 2015 was indicted by the Police administration over his alleged involvement in a police recruitment scam.

He was subsequently interdicted and the matter is still pending.

They were named as Amos Brown, 40, a radio presenter; General Corporal Gideon Sarpong of the Visibility Unit, Takoradi; PW Constable Ruth Agyiri, 27, Central Police Station, Koforidua, Pastor Paul Danso from Tarkwa and Richard Harrison, 30.

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Ex-Soldier Arrested Over Police Recruitment Scam

Police Investigates Death Of 3 Kids In Takoradi Fire

The police in Takoradi have commenced investigations to ascertain how three children  were burnt to death at Bidifuom, a suburb of the Takoradi Market Circle in the Western Region.

 

 

According to the Takoradi District Police Commander, Superintendent Peter Ofori Donkor, says the police investigation will be hinged on information made available to it by the Ghana National Fire Service, which has to first confirm the cause of the fire.

Narrating the incident to Citi News, Supt. Ofori Donkor said “at about 2:30am, the police had reports that there was fire outbreak at the Takoradi Market Circle at a place called Bidifuom.

 

 

Police moved to the scene and it was observed that a kiosk was totally destroyed by fire. Three children were burnt to death in the process and their bodies have since been sent to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital for autopsy.”

 

 

The tragic death of the two girls and the boy aged between one and three years, broke at the time when the Bidifoum part of the Takoradi Market Circle, was full of merry makers in the heat of the West Side Carnival celebrations.

 

 

While some residents alleged that the mother of the children had locked the kiosk in which the three children were sleeping with a candle to join the merry makers, others suspect arson by the father of one of the kids, who is alleged to have been at loggerheads with the mother.

 

 

This year’s Christmas celebrations in the Western Region has recorded another unfortunate incident following the death of Bright Larbo, a 22 year old Takoradi Polytechnic student, and Nasiru Amoah, a 24 year old welder who drowned at the Albert Bosomtwe Sam fishing Harbor on Christmas day.

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Police Investigates Death Of 3 Kids In Takoradi Fire

Police Blamed for Man’s Death In Volta Region

Police in the Volta Region have been accused of causing the death of a man at Dzadzefe in the Akatsi North District of the region.

Family of the deceased has blamed the police for the injustice meted out on their relative when he was alive.

The deceased was accused of breaking into the house of a parliamentary aspirant of the governing National Democratic Congress Stephen Torpko.

Stephen Torkpo reportedly ordered his ‘boys’ to beat up the deceased before he was taken to the police station.

According to the family, their relative was then tied with a rope in the police cell, where he was pronounced dead the following morning.

“Someone wanted to untie him and give him food but the police refused,” one relative, Kofi told Joy News correspondent Ivy Setordzi.

The family is seeking justice because they do not understand why their relative who left the house alive did not return in the same state.

“We want our brother back alive, and we want justice,” Kofi said.

However, in an interview with Joy News, Regional Crime Office, Superintendent Seidu Adamu said the police is still investigating to ascertain the circumstances under which the incident occurred.

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Police Blamed for Man’s Death In Volta Region