Tag Archives: Police

There is an ongoing confrontation in front of the Tamale High Court between police and some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over a bench warrant issued for the arrest of the Member of Parliament for Savelugu. The bench warrant on Yakubu Iddrisu was issued on Friday, March 31 …

Four people have been arrested for their involvement in an attack on police officers and alleged case of extortion referred to the police professional standards bureau for investigation in Axim in the Western Region. The four men are Kojo Slah alias Mozey, Emmanuel Mensah alias Kofi Asamoah, Maxwell Cudjoe and …

The Police, through an intelligence operation on 27th March 2023, arrested three suspects for possession of firearms without lawful authority and acts of vigilantism at Japa near Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. The three suspects, Godfred Appiah alias Nana Kobina Gyan, Isaac Amoako alias Nana Owusu and Theophilus Yeboah …

Some personnel of the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Armed Forces reportedly clashed at the Central Business District of Accra on Monday,March 27, 2023. A video shared on social media showed , some military officers assaulted a Police officer who was riding a motorbike for a traffic infraction. Not …

Some aggrieved students have clashed with police at the forecourt of the Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana as they tried to access the facility. The former residents of the hall are protesting to register their displeasure over what they see as management’s silence on the accommodation crisis. This …

The Inspector General of Police has disclosed that 18 Police officers have been arrested and are facing trial for various traffic offences. The IGP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare made this revelation at a durbar with Service Personnel in the Bono Regional Capital Sunyani on Friday. According to him, the war …

The Police have arrested a man suspected to be the person in an audio tape describing an alleged elaborate incident of criminal behaviour on the part of some police personnel. In the said audio tape that has been widely circulated, the man who introduced himself as Dr. Patrick Asiedu claimed …

The Ghana Police Service says it is investigating an alleged narcotics incident involving some officers of the service, whose identities are unknown. The probe follows the allegations of planting of narcotics in the vehicle of a civilian, by some police officers on patrol. The Police gives his name as Dr …

Four personnel of the Ghana Police Service in the Bono Region have been accused of brutalising an assistant environmental health analyst at Sene West District Assembly in the Bono Region after he allegedly refused to pay a GH¢5 bribe. According to a Peace FM report, the police officers, who are …

The Islamic police force in northern Nigeria’s main city has arrested 19 Muslims, accusing them of attending the wedding of a same-sex couple. The force raided the marriage ceremony in Kano after a tip-off, its spokesman Lawal Ibrahim Fagge said. The couple, who had not yet taken their vows, managed …