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Four persons who allegedly attempted to steal from a frozen meat company in the Tema Industrial Area have been arrested by the Tema Regional Police.
The police are, however, on the lookout for four others who managed to escape.
Those arrested are Shaibu Abdulai, 37, Tahiru Yakubu, 45, Yaw Badu, 30, and John Kudzo, 28, the driver of the vehicle used in the operation.
They had in their possession cutters, a drilling machine, a chisel, screw drivers and hammers.
Briefing the newsmen in Tema, the Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Augustine Gyening, said at midnight on July 25, 2009, the Police Buffalo Unit in Tema had intelligence information about the intention of some people to steal from the JAK warehouse, near the Tema Technical Institute, where frozen meat is kept for distribution to outlets.
He said with this tip-off, the police laid ambush in the area and saw a cargo truck, with registration number GW 1702 Z, approaching the warehouse.
Mr Gyening said the occupants got down, and with the use of the implements, opened the warehouse by cutting the heavy padlocks and other locking systems.
He said in the process, the police moved in to arrest them before they could escape.
According to Mr Gyening, the police would investigate the suspects and trace the source of the truck to find out if it was a stolen one.
ACP Gyening said through the Operation Calm Life launched by the police, crime, especially armed robbery, had gone down considerably in the Tema Region.
He, however, commended the public for supporting the police by giving them information about the suspicious movements of strange people, assuring them that their identity would be kept confidential .
According to Tema police statistics, 21 robberies were recorded by the end of June, 2009, while assault cases topped the list with 696 cases.