POLICE ADMINISTRATION EXPRESS GRAVE CONCERN (PAGE 3)

Story: Mary Mensah
The Police Administration has noted with grave concern the activities of some unscrupulous persons and criminals who are using the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye to defraud prospective investors living in the Diaspora.
These criminals operating under the guise of the Advance Fee Fraud Scam (419), have manage to defraud their victims of moneys running into several thousands of dollars.
The Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Kwesi Ofori said these scammers use the name, picture and office of the IGP and have even created an identical police website all in an effort to dupe their victims.
He said the criminals also purported on their website that they are agents of the police who have been tasked by the government to act on behalf of the police.
He said some of them uses addresses, emails and post office boxes that are not for the police or not in existence.
DSP Ofori said the Police Administration will like to distance itself from the activities of these criminals and appealed to all well meaning Ghanaians and foreigners to be wary of the activities of these con-men or criminals.
He stressed that the police administration does not have agents working for it besides it has worked very hard over the years to put the name of the police very high and for such criminals to use the name outside the jurisdiction of the country to defraud is a very serious offence.
“This criminal activities has been a source of great worry to the administartion and we will co-operate with our international partners like the Interpol, West African Police and other sister police forces in Europe and America in order to arrest them and bring them to book”, he stated.
He indicated that the official police website is www.ghanapolice.info and want the public to take note of that.
DSP Ofori warned the criminals to desist from acts that will tarnish the image of the police and said when arrested they would be severely dealth with according to the tenents of the law.
He also appealed to anybody with information about the activities of these criminals to report to the police.