The Ghana Police Service says it will not allow hooligans to continue to maim and kill its officers who are genuinely performing their mandates.
Speaking with Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Monday (31 January), ACP Kwasi Ofori, the director general of the public affairs department of the Ghana Police Service said, it is unacceptable for criminals to continue to kill officers in the line of duty.
ACP Ofori said the police will continue to use legitimate means to wade off criminals and protect citizens.
He said, “The police will not permit itself by hooligans, criminals to inflict injuries and death on our men. It happened about three weeks ago in Berekum where a suspect also killed one Sargent Annobil.
“This kind of thing, we need the citizens to also respect the police because we are in to serve and protect and, therefore, [there are] no grounds for such actions against our officers.”
ACP Ofori was speaking on the back of last Friday’s attack on a police officer at a police station in Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region.
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Kwabenya
The police in Kwabenya on Friday (28 January) shot and killed a suspect for stabbing an officer in the head.
According to a preliminary investigation by the police, the deceased, Hakim has earlier attacked three others and threatened to kill them.
“The victims out of fear, rushed to the police station to seek refuge but the suspect pursued the victims to the police station with a knife.”
At the police station, the deceased attacked the station officer and the investigator with a knife and stabbed them multiple times in the head for attempting to protect the victims from the violent attack,” a statement from the police said.
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