THREE POLICE PERSONNEL INTERDICTED (page 3)

May 17, 2010
Stro: Mary Mensah
THREE members of the Police Highway Patrol Unit in Accra have been interdicted on the orders of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye.
According to the Police Administration, the three — PW Inspector Olivia Asobayere, Corporal Maxwell Boapong and Lance Corporal Charles Quaye — allegedly stole some money belonging to a victim of a motor accident on the Accra-Tema Motorway while on official duty.
After the arrest, detention and interdiction of the suspects, the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau (PIPS) swiftly investigated the case and recommended that service enquiry should be held into their conduct, while the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) also pursued criminal enquiry into the matter.
A search conducted on the three persons following their arrest revealed some undisclosed amount which had been retained for investigations.
Confirming the action to the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the Director of Police Public Affairs, DSP Kwesi Ofori, said the response of the Police Administration was to affirm that it would not condone any criminal act from within and that as part of its image-cleansing campaign, no policeman who misconducted himself or herself or acted criminally would be spared.
He indicated that from the beginning of the year to date the Police Administration had interdicted over 30 policemen and women for various acts of misconduct and recalled the challenge from the IGP for personnel to be upright in character and be guided by the principles of integrity, accountability and service excellence.
He said guided by that, the administration would deal ruthlessly with any police officer who worked against public safety and interest, contrary to the mandate of the police to protect and safeguard all persons and their properties and not condone crime.
According to him, the image-cleansing campaign would continue till all the bad lots in the service had been smoked out.
On May 3, 2010, the members of the patrol team were on their routine duties on the Accra-Tema Motorway when they chanced upon an accident victim, a businessman who was travelling on the motorway.
The team assisted the victim and took him to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
But investigations revealed that an amount of money had been taken from the victim after the accident.