DISTRICT POLICE HEADQUARTERS FOR KPONE (PAGE 18)

The The Paramount Chief of the Kpone Traditional Council, Nii Tetteh Otu 11 has cut the sod for work to start on the first phase of a Kpone District Police Headquarters project.
The Kpone Traditional Council is co-sponsoring the project, which is situated on a one-acre land donated by the council .
It is expected to comprise the District Commander’s Office, Criminal Investigations Department, Motor Traffic and Transport Unit, general office and is estimated at GH¢100,000.
The second phase of the project will be a bungalow for the District Commander, police personnel and the Dovvsu department. The Paramount Chief of the Kpone Traditional Council, Nii Tetteh Otu 11 said Kpone Central with its environs was expanding very fast because of its proximity to the Tema township.
He said as a result all manner of people were attracted to the place, which called for a strong police presence in the area.
Nii Otu appealed to all companies and industries on the stool land to help in whatever way they could to enable the project to be completed early.
The Director-General of Technical Services at the Police Headquarters, Commissioner of Police (COP) Kofi Duku Arthur, who deputised for the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, expressed the appreciation of the Police Administration to the Kpone Traditional Council for providing the assistance after the elevation of the Kpone Police Station to a District Command a few months ago.
He said their swift response to the request for land attested to the readiness of the people to help the police combat crime.
COP Arthur said providing adequate office and residential accommodation were the main challenges confronting the police administration nationwide.
He said this had greatly affected recruitment prompting several appeals to civil society, corporate and professional bodies for assistance.
COP Arthur, however, expressed disappointment at the response to the appeals, saying “unfortunately not so encouraging”.
He, therefore, appealed to stakeholders including the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to assist the service to provide comfortable places of abode for the police personnel.
COP Arthur said the population of the Kpone Traditional Area had seen an increase due to the influx of business activities and, therefore, needed more police personnel to effectively control the increasing criminal activities.
He called on other stakeholders to emulate the laudable initiative of the Kpone Traditional Council to expand the existing police barracks to enable the Police Administration to post more men to the area.
COP Arthur on behalf of the IGP conveyed the gratitude of the Police Administration to the chiefs and people of the Kpone Traditional Area for their decision to construct a suitable district headquarters building for the Ghana Police Service.
The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr David Quaye Annang, said the new district had jurisdiction over most of the locations where the strategic facilities including the Bulk Oil Storage Tanks , Free Zone Enclave and the Power Plants as well as many business concerns, were located.
He made a passionate appeal to all citizens not to dispense instant justice to suspected criminals but to hand them over to the police for thorough investigations and the necessary action.