By
Gideon Ebbah, GNA
Effiduase (Ash), July 20, GNA – Police
Superintendent Asare Bediako, the Sekyere East District Commander, has appealed
to the people in the area to do away with the perceived police mistrust and
continue providing the police with credible information that would assist in
the prevention of crime in the area.
He said the notion that the police officer was
not friendly and could not be trusted when given vital information on
criminals, was not true and should be discarded.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an
interview at Effiduase, Superintendent Bediako made it clear that, the police
service needed the support of the public to succeed in fighting crime in
society.
He said the police required information from
the people, who lived in the communities with the criminals to enable the
police to identify and arrest them.
Superintendent Bediako alleged that often it
was the same informants, who disclosed details to their relatives and friends
after reporting to the police.
These relatives or friends betray the
informants either consciously or unconsciously by making public such pieces of
information, which are supposed to be discreet.
Superintendent Bediako urged the public to see
the police as a friend and collaborate effectively with them to fight crime in
the communities.
Touching on the crime situation in the
District over the past year, he said due to intensified police patrols in the
town and the close engagement with the public, criminal activities had
drastically reduced.
Superintendent Bediako said the growing
criminal activities, especially armed robbery, which used to be high on the
Agona–Asamang–Effuduase stretch of the road, had been brought under control due
to increased police patrols.
Additionally, the formation of Neighbourhood
Watch Committees in many communities in the District had also helped to curb
criminal activities in that District.
Superintendent Bediako appealed to the media
to help sensitize the public to cooperate effectively with the police to fight
crime in their communities.
GNA