{"id":469447,"date":"2018-03-03T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/03\/police-decision-not-to-engage-robbers-in-gun-battle-is-sound-judgment-quartey\/"},"modified":"2018-03-03T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T11:37:12","slug":"police-decision-not-to-engage-robbers-in-gun-battle-is-sound-judgment-quartey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/03\/police-decision-not-to-engage-robbers-in-gun-battle-is-sound-judgment-quartey\/","title":{"rendered":"Police decision not to engage robbers in gun battle is sound judgment &#8211; Quartey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  3 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-03-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/78644617.295.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Quartey100\" title=\"Henry Quartey100\" width=\"295\" height=\"158\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Henry Quartey, Deputy Interior Minister<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520077032_470_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A Deputy Interior Minister has described as sound judgment the decision by the police not to engage the Royal Motors armed robbers in a bloody shoot-out early this week.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Quartey, who is also a Member of Parliament of Ayawaso Central says there would have been a bloodbath on the streets of Accra if the police had decided otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers having succeeded in attacking the company and running away with an unspecified amount of money run into another vehicle, hijacked the vehicle and bolted with it.<\/p>\n<p>There have been suggestions that police could easily have trapped the robbers in traffic and engaged them in a fierce exchange to immobilize them.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on Joy FM\u2019s news analysis programme Newsfile, Saturday, Henry Quartey said the police were prudent in how they managed the situation in order to save lives.<\/p>\n<p>At least two people have been killed in a bloody armed robbery attack last week. The first was a cashier at Delta Agro company who was trailed from a bank where he had gone to cash an amount of 200,000 cedis and was later shot in the head by the robbers.<\/p>\n<p>In Obuasi, a woman who was on his way home from work was attacked by the robbers, had her bag snatched and later stabbed. She died shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the deaths, there have been other attacks on Forex Bureaus, and other attacks on residents in Oyibi, Kasoa by the robbers.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have triggered two emergency high profile national security meetings, one of which was headed by the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/SsSqLIYC-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second was held by security chiefs all geared at finding a proper remedy for the increasing state of armed robbery attacks.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some actions taken by the government, including a seven-prong action plan to fight the armed robbery attacked.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been some reshuffle of the police chiefs to strategise.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the matter on Newsfile, Henry Quartey said while the recent cases of robberies are worrying the impression should not be created as if the country was in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArmed robbery did not start yesterday\u201d he said and cautioned against the politicizing of crime in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A security expert Adam Bonaa who was also on the show said crime patterns are evolving due to demographic changes and the country must take steps to counter these patterns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t act we will be devoured by the criminals,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/EvFo19Kp-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/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 Saturday, 3 March 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-03-03 Henry Quartey, Deputy Interior Minister A Deputy Interior Minister has described as sound judgment the decision by the police not to engage the Royal Motors armed robbers in a bloody shoot-out early this week. 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