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07 Aug 20 : 13 | Police reduce checkpoints to stem bribery The Ghana Police Service has effectively reduced the number of checkpoints on the Tema-Paga route as a measure to reduce delays and bribery from truck drivers plying the Tema-Ouagadougou route. The number of police checkpoints on the route dropped from 14 in December 2007 to nine by June this year... Source : General News 7 hours ago |
07 Aug 12 : 44 | OF NAME TAGS AND POLICE PERSONNEL In every human institution, there are bound to be bad nuts and the Ghana Police Service is no exception. However, on the international front, the service has a high reputation as one of the best peacekeeping institutions in the UN system. In peacekeeping operations around the world,... Source : General News 14 hours ago |
06 Aug 13 : 01 | Police To Ensure Safe Registration THE ASHANTI Regional Police Commander, DCOP K. Ayensu Opare Addo, has pointed out that his outfit is doing everything possible to ensure that any disagreement over the ages of people taking part in the on-going voter registration exercise is resolved. According to him, the attention of the... Source : General News 38 hours ago |
06 Aug 10 : 29 | Police work under unacceptable conditions - MP The Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Mr Alfred Agbesi, has bemoaned the deplorable conditions under which the police work in the Ashaiman Municipality. For example, he said, senior police officers and their families reside in single rooms, describing the facilities as 'pigeon holes'. Mr... Source : General News 40 hours ago |
05 Aug 23 : 28 | Police storm Radio Gold Police on Tuesday morning stormed the offices of Radio Gold, an Accra based private FM station, after it interviewed an alleged NPP activist involved in an electoral fraud. Joy News reports the Financial Controller of the station, Fred Ayesu Lindsey, was subsequently beaten and arrested by police... Source : General News |
04 Aug 12 : 55 | Police Seize 44 Stolen Vehicles Forty-four vehicles, believed to have been stolen from foreign countries, have been impounded by the Ghana Police Service following a three-day exercise within the Accra-Tema metropolis. The exercise, code-named 'Operation SEMTA', was organised by the INTERPOL Sub-Regional Bureau based in... Source : General News |
03 Aug 19 : 30 | Stop attacking the police - DCOP cautions civilians The Director-General in-charge of Police Operations at the Police Headquarters, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP Patrick Timbillah, has cautioned civilians to desist from attacking police personnel in the discharge of their duties. DCOP Timbillah said pulling of offensive objects on the... Source : General News |
02 Aug 21 : 41 | Stop attacking the police, DCOP cautions civilians The Director-General in-charge of Police Operation at the Police Headquarters, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Patrick Timbillah has cautioned civilians to desist from attacking police personnel in the discharge of their duties. DCOP Timbillah said pulling of offensive objects on the police... Source : General News |
01 Aug 17 : 45 | Police Boss wants Criminal Libel Law back Mr. Bernard G. Dery, Volta Regional Police Commander, said repeal of the Criminal Libel Law risked compromising national security. He said some journalists are hiding behind press freedom to dent people's image, malign them and create confusion in the country especially in the Volta Region. ... Source : General News |
01 Aug 16 : 40 | Don’t settle rape/defilement cases at home – Police Winneba Municipal Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jordan Quaye, has appealed to heads of families not to settle defilement and rape cases at home because they are serious offences. ASP Quaye, who made the appeal in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on Thursday,... Source : General News |
31 Jul 18 : 01 | Volta Regional Police Commander hits back at critics Volta Regional Police Commander, DCOP Bernard Dery has lashed out at politicians for causing panic and playing politics with an alleged assassination attempt on Regional Minister Kofi Dzamesi, which claimed two lives. In a report filed by Joy correspondent Agbeko Ben Coffie on Thursday, DCOP Dery... Source : General News |
31 Jul 15 : 48 | Police Cautioned To Respect Human Right THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL in-charge of Human Resource Development of the Ghana Police Service, Commissioner of Police (COP) Joana Osei Opoku has charged police officers in the country to stand up for justice and maintain respect for the fundamental human rights of every single member of society. ... Source : General News |
06 Aug 21 : 29 | NDC, NPP in brutal clash Supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have reportedly launched into a brutal clash at Hohoe in the Volta Region. Several people have sustained life-threatening injuries with property worth millions of Ghana cedis destroyed. The... Source : General News 29 hours ago |
30 Jul 17 : 59 | Community police will not be deployed at polling stations. The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Mr George Anko-Bil, said on Wednesday that Community Police will not be deployed at polling stations during the December general election following apprehensions by some political parties in the region. He said those categories of quasi-security... Source : General News |
29 Jul 13 : 05 | E/R Police step up anti-drug war The Eastern Regional Police Command has instituted measures to arrest and prosecute people who deal in narcotics, especially, Indian hemp or "wee" cultivators, peddlers and smokers of the substance. Speaking to The Statesman in an interview, the Eastern Regional Police Commander, ACP George... Source : General News |
06 Aug 11 : 13 | 10,000 Policemen Given Name Tags The Police Administration has started implementing the directive by the Interior Minister, Dr Kwame Addo Kufuur that all police personnel should wear name tags. Consequently, more than 10,000 name tags have been distributed to police personnel all over the country. The reasons for the... Source : General News 40 hours ago |
27 Jul 21 : 28 | Police MTTU boss wants better supervision of juniors The Commander of the Motor Traffic Transport Unit (MTTU), Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Daniel Avorgah, has stated that lack of supervision and control of junior personnel in the Ghana Police Service is fast undermining the integrity of the Service. ACP Avorgah explained that senior... Source : General News |
27 Jul 01 : 50 | Police Seeks Corporate Support The Ghana Police Service is embarking on a drive to get corporate bodies to provide additional support to the Service to ensure that it is adequately resourced to make it effective and efficient. Currently, the Service is inundated with several challenges inhibiting their performance, despite... Source : General News |
25 Jul 18 : 22 | Police defend mass arrests in swoops The Tema Regional Police commander DCOP John Kudalor has defended the practice of mass arrests and the parading of suspected criminals on camera as a necessary evil. The practice has been condemned by rights advocates as an affront to human dignity. But the police commander in an interview... Source : General News |
25 Jul 12 : 23 | Man Had Cutlass - Police Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) John K. Kudalor, the Tema Regional Police Commander, on Wednesday explained that Abdul Hakeem Annan Darpoh, the estate developer who was gunned down by a Prampram Police patrol team on July 17 at New Dawhenya near Tema, defied Police orders to lay down his... Source : General News |
25 Jul 08 : 56 | Police schools personnel in communication skills The Police Administration is to organise intensive Communication Skills Development Programme for police personnel this year. The programme as part of its re-tooling process would begin with personnel from Central Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of Ghana Police Service and gradually cover... Source : General News |
24 Jul 20 : 47 | Police Administration to organise seminar on communication skills for The Police Administration is to organise intensive Communication Skills Development Programme for police personnel this year. The programme as part of its re-tooling process would begin with personnel from Central Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of Ghana Police Service and gradually... Source : General News |
24 Jul 17 : 32 | Police mounts search for leader of gang The police have mounted a man-hunt for one Benjamin Sey, also known as Paa Osei, who is believed to be the leader of a gang of thieves who stole railway lines worth about 11,000 dollars at Feyiase near Bekwai in the Amansie East District of Ashanti, on July 19 this year. The police are also after... Source : General News |
23 Jul 11 : 19 | Police Declare War On Criminals THE WESTERN Regional Police Command last Friday declared war on criminals in some communities within the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis where 25 suspected hardened criminals and drug dealers were rounded off. The exercise, which was undertaken by 10 officers and 111 men at 4 am, saw the police... Source : General News |
20 Jul 11 : 11 | Police Urge To Be Neutral DCOP S. Andoh-Kwofie, a Reviewing Officer, has called on members of the Police Administration to ensure that any assignment they undertake is non-partisan, particularly as we are in an election year. According to him, with just a few months for Ghanaian voters to go to the polls, it was very... Source : General News |
18 Jul 23 : 49 | Police arrest 24 suspected criminals The Police on Friday arrested 24 suspected criminals at various locations during a dawn swoop in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Mr Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, the Western Regional Police Commander, said at a press briefing at Takoradi. He said the suspects included Sunday Aggu and Latif... Source : General News |
17 Jul 11 : 00 | Police alert - to fight crime - IGP Increasing reports of violent crime and the drug trade in Ghana have elicited a strong response from the Police High Command. In a rare encounter between the police top brass and the Editorial Board of the Daily Graphic last Tuesday, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng... Source : General News |
04 Aug 12 : 07 | Review repeal of criminal libel law - Bernard Dery The Volta Regional Police Commander, DCOP Bernard Dery has called on the government to reconsider the decision to repeal the criminal libel law. He said the media were abusing the media freedom in the country. Mr. Dery told Joy News that journalists were engaged in character assassination... Source : General News |
16 Jul 11 : 43 | AGI 'Buys' Police GHANA'S CAPTAINS of industry have offered Ghana's Police Service a set of consolidated 'bribes' to pay special attention to the security of their businesses as the Minister of the Interior looked on in 'horror' in Accra on Tuesday. The President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Tony... Source : General News |
15 Jul 12 : 37 | Police Plan For Free Elections Up North SENIOR police officers in the three northern regions are strategising to meet the challenge of ensuring violence free elections this December. The three regional commanders and their divisional officers met, in Tamale on Saturday to map up strategies to deal with any pre and post-election... Source : General News |
12 Jul 00 : 05 | Police need the support of the public to fight crime – Andoh-Kwofie Mr Stephen Andoh-Kwofie, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Director General of Finance of Ghana Police Service on Friday said the police could succeed in the fight against crime with the support and cooperation of the public as partners. He said the public should volunteer to give the relevant,... Source : General News |
11 Jul 17 : 09 | Fire Officer calls on police to expedite prosecution of fire offenders The Sunyani Municipal Fire Officer, Kwasi Baffour-Awuah, has called on the Police Service to speed up prosecution of bushfire offenders and others, who contravene environmental protection bye-laws passed last year, to protect the environment and wildlife. Mr. Baffour-Awuah, speaking to Brong... Source : General News |
09 Jul 14 : 58 | Police InvestigateDr Yankah's Death The police have begun investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr Hayford De-Graft Yankah, a urologist at the 37 Military Hospital. Consequently, the police have taken statements from Prof Kwadwo Amoako Attah, Dr Yankah's friend whom the late urologist called to his... Source : General News |
08 Jul 18 : 00 | EX-POLICE OFFICER CALLS FOR SHAKE-UP IN THE POLICE SERVICE A former lone crusader in the Police Service, Supt. Avuyi has appealed to the Inspector General of Police to reform the service through what he describes as “house-cleaning exercise”. He said the house cleaning would turn round the negative perceptions about the Service to a more formidable,... Source : General News |
02 Aug 18 : 54 | Importers accuse CEPS, cops of bribery A number of Ghanaian importers have made serious allegations of extortion against some officials of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and police personnel operating at the various borders and barriers. The importers made the allegations at a public forum organised by the Ministry... Source : General News |
01 Aug 21 : 20 | Mob riot in Nigeria after crash An irate mob went on the rampage in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, after a road accident killed at least 11 people. A bus carrying 40 Nigerian employees of the German construction company Julius Berger crashed into a minibus and then turned over in the morning rush hour. Riot police had to quell... Source : General News |
01 Aug 12 : 16 | Farmer steals pay loader, sells it as scrap A 54-year-old farmer, Ransford Oparteh, has been arrested by the Amasaman Police for stealing a heavy duty broken-down 'Pay loader' machine, and selling it as scrap. Also arrested is Fuseini Umar, 26, for dishonestly receiving and buying the stolen pay loader. The Amasaman District Police... Source : General News |
31 Jul 15 : 25 | Man, 60, stabbed to death A 60-YEAR-OLD man, Samuel Bedzrah, met his untimely death when he was stabbed after separating a fight between a brother and a sister at Balve, a surburb of Hohoe, last Friday. Daniel Kumassah, 24, alias Daniel Ketorwu, who allegedly stabbed Bedzrah is in the grips of the Hohoe Police. ... Source : General News |
30 Jul 18 : 43 | Fraudster Busted A man believed to be in his late forties has been arrested by the Accra Central Police for defrauding a Danish citizen of $100,000 under the guise of assisting him to purchase dried cocoa beans from COCOBOD. The alleged fraudster, Nana Yaw Apea, is said to have falsified documents to convince his... Source : General News |
30 Jul 13 : 05 | Rape, defilements lessen There has been a reduction in the number of reported rape and defilement cases for the first quarter of this year as compared to same period in 2007, statistics available to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) indicate. A press statement signed by Assistant Superintendent of... Source : General News |
30 Jul 00 : 40 | There is a reduction in rape and defilement cases – DOVVSU Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) says statistics available indicates a reduction in the number of reported rape and defilement cases for the first quarter of this year as compared to same period in 2007. A press statement signed by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP)... Source : General News |
29 Jul 09 : 43 | Fresh fighting erupts in Buipe At least one person is feared dead with several others injured, in fresh clashes that have erupted in the Buipe Traditional Area in the Northern Region, police has confirmed. The clashes begun on Monday morning at a market place, with two feuding chieftaincy factions said to be firing at each... Source : General News |
28 Jul 12 : 28 | Hunchbacks killed for ritual purposes The Bibiani police are appealing to the public to assist them to unravel an emerging gruesome phenomenon there of hunchbacks being allegedly killed and their humps removed for suspected ritual purposes. Even those who die naturally, according to the police, have their bodies exhumed and the... Source : General News |
27 Jul 19 : 05 | Chained woman kills eight-year-old girl The Nzema East District Police are holding a 55-year-old woman for allegedly killing the eight-year-old daughter of the head of a prayer camp. Awuraba Nyameke Amoah, the suspect, who was being treated of suspected mental problems by Osofo Esther Obaa Yaa at Anwia in the Ellembelle District of the... Source : General News |
27 Jul 01 : 50 | Need To Reduce Road Barriers - Deputy Minister Dr Charles Yaw Brempong-Yeboah, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD yesterday expressed concern about the many road barriers jointly mounted by personnel of Ghana Police Service, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service and Ghana Immigration Service at the country's... Source : General News |
24 Jul 16 : 44 | Barbados: Two Ghanaians arrested, others on the run Two Ghanaians among seven West Africans who refused to surrender to immigration authorities three months ago are now behind bars. Alfred Kwasi Acheampong, 36, and Patrick Ofori-Berko, 24, were captured recently during a police operation, according to a Barbados website, Nation News. Both... Source : General News |
23 Jul 18 : 27 | Squatters ejected from Accra Race Course Structures housing several families described as squatters at the Accra Race Course were this morning demolished under police watch. The old Race Course near the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium is the site for the construction of a multi-million dollar five-star hotel by Cascade Development Limited. ... Source : General News |
22 Jul 15 : 25 | GUNNED DOWN IN CHURCH For the umpteenth time, the Ghana Police Service has been entangled in yet another incident of abuse of power - a development which has claimed one life. The latest case, which pathetically claimed the life of a 36-year-old estate developer barely a week to his wedding day, occurred right in the... Source : General News |
19 Jul 20 : 39 | Cop dies, rape case ends Four years after a 13year-old girl had been brutally raped, the police are yet to arrest the culprit because the officer in charge of the case died shortly after he initiated investigations into the matter. The parents of the victim also claim that police investigations were stalled because they... Source : General News |
19 Jul 13 : 49 | Sergeant Dawson's remains flown-in The body of Sergeant Stanley Hope Dawson, an officer of the Ghana Police Service, who died in Darfur, Sudan, while on peacekeeping duties, was flown home on Friday. At the airport to receive Sergeant Dawson's remains were senior Police officers and members of his family. Speaking to... Source : General News |
