Xmas Crime Combat

IGP, Paul Tawiah Quaye

The Police Administration has drawn up a contingency plan for ensuring safety and security before, during and after the Yuletide.

Under the ‘Father Christmas Two' operation, the police will intensify patrols on the highways, as well as in communities and urban areas.

The Director General (Operations) of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP John Kudalor, who launched the operation in Accra, said in view of the operation, new vehicles had been given to the highway patrol units to enable them to cope with the present challenges on the highways.

He said the Police Administration last year launched Father Christmas One to assure the general populace of adequate security measures in place for the festive season and that the latest launch was in line with that objective.

Outlining the plan, DCOP Kudalor said last year the police started operating tent cities in the urban and crime-prone areas on the highways to bring policing to the doorstep of communities. He said more men had been added to the personnel of the tent cities in the communities to beef up their operations.

He said the police had increased the number of personnel on the roads to manage the traffic situation and ensure a reduction in road traffic accidents.

He said police patrols would be intensified on the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Adabraka, Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Paloma, Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Neoplan Station, Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Avenor roads and the Labone Celsbridge area.

DCOP Kudalor said the police had put in place a monitoring mechanism to check police officers deployed for duties at all places.

The Public Affairs Director of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Kwesi Ofori, praised DCOP Kudalor, saying that since his assumption of office, more than 90,000 suspected criminals had been arrested and promised that the country would become a much safer place in the coming years.