Police Officers In Wa Asked To Produce Cell Breakers

The Wa Police Command has asked two police officers to produce three of the five cell breakers within 10 days or face sanctions in accordance with the Police Service Act.

The two officers (names withheld) were on duty on Tuesday night
at the Wa Police Station and at about 0245 hours five suspects, two of
them convicted to six years prison terms each by a Wa circuit court
managed to break two of the padlocks to the cell’s door and absconded.

The Upper West Regional Police Public Relations Officer,
Inspector Geoffrey Adu-Amankwah told the Ghana News Agency that the
two convicted culprits, who were to serve their prison terms in Kumasi
and Nsawam prisons, were those rearrested.

They have since been sent down to serve their sentences in those
prisons, while the three other absconders had been charged with minor
offences such as unlawful entry and theft.

Inspector Adu-Amankwah said the command was investigating the
two officers to find out whether they were really at post when the
incident happened and why they did not hear the noise when the
suspects were breaking the padlocks.

He said all the cell breakers hailed from the region and police
had visited their hometowns and other relatives’ residents but could
not get any of them to arrest.

Inspector Adu-Amankwah has therefore appealed to the general
public to help the police to re-arrest the three persons, who were on
the run, and bring them to justice.