Re-build Police station or lose our protection – Police
The Police administration say Police officers will not be assigned to Donkorkrom and Tease in the Eastern Region until a Police station that was destroyed by residents of the area is rebuilt.
Over 500 residents of Donkorkrom and Tease attacked and set ablaze some Police facilities in those areas in protest of the escape of some police officers who were arrested for attempting to rob a GCB bullion van at Afram Plains in the Eastern Region.
The attempted robbery led to the death of the driver of the van after a heated exchange of gunfire between the police officer in the van and the suspects.
The police insist the people must pay for the construction of the offices else they will never return to protect the communities.
Addressing the media on Friday, Director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), COP Prosper Kwame Agblor said when the incident happened “we came out to assure the general public of the efforts we were making to re-arrest the suspects and urged them to remain calm and assist the police in this direction.”
“However, the action that followed the escape of the suspects is unfortunate and reprehensible, to say the least. On Thursday, residents of Donkorkrom and Tease on the instigation of some opinion leaders mobilized and attacked some Police stations vandalizing service vehicles and other vehicles packed within the premises of the said police facilities and setting some rooms of the Donkorkrom Police barracks ablaze.”
He noted that the some of the residents also “attacked the Police officers and their families and looted one of the blocks in the barracks, taking personal belongings of the affected personnel and their families away.”
Agblor said the police officers suspected to have tried to rob the bullion van including those who did the arrest will be subjected to a thorough investigations and severe sanctions taken against those found culpable.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey & Franklin Badu Jnr/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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