Police officer trades boots for ‘wee’

A staff of the Ghana Police Service, Constable Frank Twum, has sold his duty boots for GH?4.00, which he used to buy marijuana, popularly known as ‘wee’.

His action was so incomprehensible to officers at the Abura Dunkwa police station that they have decided to refer him to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, and Today learnt his ‘wee’ addiction has also compelled him to sell a good part of his personal belongings.

“[He] has… sold his mattress, standing fan, wrist watch at very absurd prices in order to get money for the substance…,” a police officer at the station told this paper.

By the compulsive addiction, Constable Twum has also become a thief who steals properties of his co-workers just to sell the items for the same purpose.

The Abura Dunkwa District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Twum Barima, disclosed that Constable Twum, under the pretext of making a call, once tried to bolt with the telephone receiver of a payphone operator some months ago.

When the vendor called for help, he was grabbed and severely beaten up.

That attitude contradicts the code of conduct of the service, says DSP Twum Barima, who, therefore, referred him to the Kasoa police station, from where he returned few days later to steal the battery of an impounded car seized from armed robbers and left in the Abura Dunkwa police station premises.

“He removed the car battery from the car, hid it in a polythene bag and boarded a taxi to Cape Coast to sell the battery,” DSP Twum Barima revealed.

“He was however arrested by the Yamoransa police upon a tip off and brought back to Abora Dunkwa,” he added.

This incident has forced DSP Twum-Barima to write a letter to the regional command requesting that Constable Twum be referred to a psychiatric hospital for medical diagnosis.

He explained that the bizarre attitude of Constable Twum is abnormal to a normal human being, particularly as a police officer.