{"id":468922,"date":"2018-03-01T22:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/robberies-igp-shakes-up-top-hierarchy\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T22:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:50:30","slug":"robberies-igp-shakes-up-top-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/robberies-igp-shakes-up-top-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Robberies: IGP shakes up top hierarchy"},"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>classfmonline.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\/2018\/02\/69650828.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asante Apeatuo IGP\" title=\"Asante Apeatuo IGP\" width=\"295\" height=\"206\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu<\/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\/1519944630_345_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu has reshuffled some top police officers as a way of structuring for effective policing following a recent rise in armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Per the latest reshuffle announced on Thursday, 1 March 2018, COP\/Dr George Akuffo Dampare, Director-General \/Operations is now the Director-General \/ Research and Planning.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, COP Christian Tetteh Yohunu, Director-General \/ Special Duties is now the Director-General \/Police Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><b>Robbers on rampage<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This week has seen a number of robbery incidents in the Accra, one on a Forex Bureaux at Spintex and two daylight robberies in the North Kaneshie area.<\/p>\n<p>Two persons are reported to have sustained gunshot wounds from suspected robbers who appeared to be fleeing a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Gunfire was first heard in the area around a Latex Foam showroom at North Kaneshie where the robbers had crashed their vehicle. Two persons have since been arrested in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday morning, armed men stormed Royal Motors, an automobile company in Accra, making away with the company\u2019s sales.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses reported that the robbers trailed a bullion van that had entered the Industrial Area premises of the company to collect the company\u2019s sales made the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a Lebanese national of Delta Agro, a plastics manufacturing firm in Tema, was shot dead by robbers and his Ghc200, 000 stolen after he had withdrawn the money from a Zenith Bank branch in the Tema Heavy Industrial area to pay workers.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been several complaints from Ghanaians in other parts of the country who say armed robbers have been terrorizing them without any help from the police.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Inspector General of Police reshuffles Force amidst soaring armed robbery attacks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/372721016\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-lzdmRGFK5LAjlGnPYcqe&amp;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.069988137603796\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_78726\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 1 March 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-03-01 Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu has reshuffled some top police officers as a way of structuring for effective policing following a recent rise in armed robbery. 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