Saturday 21st July, 2018
Lance Corporal Fredrick Godzi Amanor,
popularly known among his colleagues as “Skalla”, is seeing in the video
savagely beating a woman, carrying a baby.
A press statement issued and signed Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sheil
Accra, July 21, GNA – The police officer
caught cruelly assaulting a nursing mother on video that has gone viral on
social media, has been taken into custody.
Lance Corporal Fredrick Godzi Amanor,
popularly known among his colleagues as “Skalla”, is seeing in the video
savagely beating a woman, carrying a baby.
A press statement issued and signed Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sheilla Kessie Abayie-Buckman, Director of
Public Affairs, said his arrest was ordered by the Inspector General of Police
(IGP).
It added that an investigation into his
conduct had already started and pledged to make the findings public.
The statement expressed condemnation of the
officer’s behaviour, which it labelled as unprofessional and inconsistent with
the ongoing police transformation programme.
“Following this conduct, the Police
Administration has issued stern warning to all police officers, reminding them
to desist from any such human rights abuses and misconduct.”
GNA