{"id":468722,"date":"2018-03-01T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/1-gun-is-to-4-or-5-police-officers-senior-officer-claims\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T09:17:12","slug":"1-gun-is-to-4-or-5-police-officers-senior-officer-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/1-gun-is-to-4-or-5-police-officers-senior-officer-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"1 gun is to 4 or 5 police officers &#8211; Senior officer claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  1 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-03-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/10146649.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana Police21\" title=\"Ghana Police21\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Reports indicate that Ghana Police Service have less weapons to clamp down armed robbers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1519895832_972_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The difficulties within the Ghana Police Service have been fingered as reason why the country\u2019s foremost law enforcement agency is not squarely repelling attacks by armed robbers.<\/p>\n<p>A senior officer claims that the situation is worse within the Service than what is in the public space.<\/p>\n<p>Robbery is reported to have increased in the last two months.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 89 robberies were recorded in January, 38 more than that recorded in the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on civilians have extended to police officers, some of whom have been killed by the armed attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Media General\u2019s Komla Klutse on anonymity, the senior officer said some of the weapons used by the officers are \u201cold stock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons that were given to the police in the 1990s and as years rolled on, you don\u2019t expect the weapons to function as when they were new,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that even a station staffed with many officers in Accra has only \u201cone efficient weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine, if that station faces a situation of robbery, what do you expect them to do?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery, assured the nation that the state\u2019s security agencies including the Ghana Police Service are in control and have not lost the fight to armed robbers.<\/p>\n<p>A brazen robbery attack at the North Industrial Area and a raid of  forex bureaux and mobile money vendors on Tuesday have left many in fear.<\/p>\n<p>The police later announced a total of 11 arrests from the two separate attacks.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a Lebanese, 54, working Delta Agro Company in Tema, was attacked and killed by robbers, having gone to cash GH\u00a2200,000 from a bank.<\/p>\n<p>A manhunt was launched by the police immediately after the fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: 63 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() 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