Police vehicles to provide lights in ‘dumsor’ strategy

The Ghana Police Service has promised to beef up its patrol personnel during the entire period of load shedding in the country.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Freeman Tettey of the Public Affairs Directorate of the Service, most district commanders have procured more motorbikes to facilitate movement of officers in providing security in the various communities listed in the Electricity Company of Ghana's timetable.

“So that we can pursue these motorbike guys who have been snatching bags among others,” DSP Tettey told TV3’s Nana Akua Asare on Friday, March 21.

What is striking, he said, is that the police have strategized to leave lights on their vehicles on in areas that go off as per the timetable.

“We intend ensuring that at every point in time, any police vehicle should have its lights on to alert the public and build confidence that indeed we are on the ground,” he averred.

The country was plunged into power-rationing exercise on Monday but ECG released a time table to regulate the exercise on Wednesday.

According to the police, intelligence-gathering strategies have been put in place to ensure peace and security especially in crime-prone areas and “areas that people are susceptible to attacks.”