IGP interdicts cop

The Inspector General of Police has ordered the immediate interdiction of Corporal W.K. Dzormeku of the Adansi-Atobiase Police Station in Ashanti, pending full-scale investigations into his alleged defilement of a 11-year old female suspect detained at the station.

Cpl. Dzormeku was last Wednesday night said to have forcibly had sex with the juvenile behind the counter at the charge office popularly referred to as "counter back" in Police parlance. Dependable Police sources told the Times that the Juvenile suspect was on Wednesday, arrested for stealing and sent to the police station.

Her relatives could not be traced to bail her and since there were male suspects detained in the cells, she was therefore detained behind the counter at the charge office. The next morning when Sergeant H.K. Darkwa, the first out-station orderly, took over from Cpl. Dzormekuas the last station orderly, he (Sgt Darkwa) found that the handcuffs holding the suspect to the counter had been opened

When Sgt. Darkwa asked the girl, who opened the handcuffs, she mentioned Cpl. Dzormeku and claimed that he had sex with her behind the counter after opening the handcuffs. She further alleged that Cpl. Dzormeku asked her to go away after the act but she did not because she was afraid. Sgt. Darkwa informed the station officer who also confronted the girl and again she mentioned Cpl. Dzormeku and narrated the ordeal in detail.