Upper West Police Command happy with crime free festivities

The Upper West Regional Police Command has expressed its sincere gratitude to all security agencies in the region for working effortlessly to ensure a crime free Christmas and new year celebrations within the Wa Municipality and its environs.

“Due to the effective collaboration with all sister security agencies, the region did not see any major crime issue before, during and after the celebration of the two major festivities,” said the Command.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr. Edmond Nyamekye, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Upper West Regional Police Command, expressed the gratitude in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Wa.

He said this was achieved through a number of measures put in place by the Command, including the police visibility and accessibility programme, effective police patrol teams and the establishment of two Police Posts at Konta and Dobile, both suburbs of Wa.

ASP Nyamekye said the visibility programme had made the Police visible and accessible in and around the Municipality, making it difficult for criminals to operate.

He said the Wa-Bamboi-Kumasi road which used to be a robbery prone zone is now one of the safest roads in the country due to the police patrol teams put in place by the Command to ensure constant police surveillance on the road and in the Municipality.

The Regional Police PRO also indicated that the establishment of the Police Post in some suburbs of the Municipality was to open up more to the public to easily report criminal activities to the Police without difficulties.

ASP Nyamekye noted that the region had also witnessed an improvement in both manpower and logistics which aided them tremendously in preventing cross border crime in collaboration with the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS).

He added that there was also the establishment of neighbourhood watch committees to police their respective communities and report any clues of criminal activities to the Police to swiftly act upon them.

ASP Nyamekye also disclosed that the Command had kick-started the Regional Police Headquarters project which was being championed by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP).

According to him, the completion of the project would go a long way to create a conducive working environment that would further boost the morale of the Police in the region to deliver on its mandate of ensuring peace and security of the people.

ASP Nyamekye noted that security was a shared responsibility, and urged the public to co-operate with the Police to maintain peace and security within the society, in order to create the necessary environment for development to thrive.