Volta Regional Police personnel involved in robbery?

Ho, May 19, GNA - Mr Joy Afagbedzi, Volta Regional Police Public Affairs Officer has confirmed that some police personnel were being investigated for alleged robberies of mobile phones and cash while on operation at Aflao.

Four robberies took place around Aflao within the past 10 days. Police sources at Aflao told Ghana News Agency that three policemen, all from the Hawk Unit, a special Rapid Response Unit in the Volta Region allegedly raided the houses of Agbotsi Gbagbla and Mensah Dzenyo, both residents of Agbaweme, a village near Aflao in search of illegal arms.

They were, Sergeant Emmanuel Attigah, Constables Bukari Abdulai and Eric Agyire being quizzed over three of the robberies, which occurred on the night of Sunday May 11, this year.

Seven other police personnel allegedly involved in a fourth robbery on Tuesday May 13 have not been identified.

The sources said the three policemen and their alleged civilian accomplices, Francis Zutu who is on the run and Ben Midadze in police custody arrived at the village on motorbikes. It said after their operation, some of the residents also went on motorbikes chasing them and the alleged robbers abandoned their motorbikes and took to their heels. The sources said a report was made to the police and during initial investigations and hints of an identification parade the three police personnel reported themselves to the police administration. The complainants in their reports to the police at Aflao claimed they lost some monies in cedis and CFA francs. The source said one Kwame Sodetordzi also reported to the police that he lost 200 Ghana cedis during a similar raid when some policemen who claimed they were looking for illegal arms searched his home at Akporkloe, also near Aflao. With regard to the fourth incident, the sources said one Adzoa Boso, 75, reported that seven people dressed in police uniforms, accompanied by one Prosper Amuzu entered her house and broke into her son Torga Boso's room and he lost 550 Ghana cedis and 350 CFA Francs.