We are investing more in community policing -ACP Kwesi Fori

Another strategy the GPS has mapped out to combat crime is a Special Anti Operation Police Unit which is always on the alert to respond to a high robbery incident especially on the Eastern and Northern corridors.

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The Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kwesi Fori, the Acting Director-General of the Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), says the police are not devastated by the spate of crime in the country.

This, he said, is as a  result of the huge investments the GPS is making in community policing, in addition to the annual recruitments, to help reduce the police to citizen ratio.

According to ACP Kwesi Ofori, the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akufo Dampare has met all the 18 Regional Police Commanders to map out strategies to clamp down on criminal activities in the country and one of such strategies is investing in community policing.

ACP Kwesi Fori told an Accra-based Ahotor FM yesterday that, the IGP had again met with the Tema and Greater Accra Regional, Division and District Commanders separately to strategise on how to make the region safer.

To make the capital safer, therefore, ACP Kwesi Fori said the police have increased their presence in public, besides the enormous cooperation the GPS is enjoying from the community. For example, he said, the superb community-police partnership had led to the arrest of armed robbers at Afiadenyigba and Tadzevu, both towns in the Volta Region over the weekend.

“So yes, the police will continue to largely depend on the community for credible information and informants’ tips to clamp down on criminals,” ACP Kwesi Fori explained.

Another strategy the GPS has mapped out to combat crime is a Special Anti Operation Police Unit which is always on the alert to respond to a high robbery incident especially on the Eastern and Northern corridors.

“The police have not lost the fight to these criminals. The police are on the ground and I must assure the citizens that they have no cause to worry. It is not as scary as people might think…we are not giving criminals any rest,” ACP Kwesi Fori spoke in Twi, a local dialect.