THE Fight against crime in Tema communities 10, 11 and 12 received a boost when the Vice-President, John Dramani Mahama, inaugurated a new police station for the Ghana Police Service.
The police station, funded by the Rotary Club of Tema at a cost GH¢80,000, has separate cells for females, males and juveniles, making the new station the only one in the Greater Accra Region with a facility for juveniles.
Armed robbery and other anti-social activities have become the bane of Tema communities 10, 11 and 12 but the nearest police station to the communities was located in Community One, over three kilometres away.
Performing the inaugural ceremony, the Vice -President commended the Rotary Club of Tema for its effort to support the Ghana Police Service to fight crime in Tema.
He stated that communities had a stake in their own safety and in identifying criminals in their vicinity hence the need to contribute towards the provision of facilities.
Mr Mahama said the government was taking steps to equip the police by installing new database for fingerprinting and upgrading its laboratories for DNA tests.
The Vice-President, who is also the Chairman of the Police Council, observed that the Ghana Police Service was working under challenging circumstances and called on society to encourage the police than to condemn them outright, adding that ‘there are bad lots everywhere.’
He appealed to philanthropic organisations to continue to support the police to enable them work harder even as the government continued in its effort to beef up the workforce of the service.
Mr Mahama said the government would soon recruit 2000 officers into the service to augment the existing number.
He called on people in the various communities to take advantage of the rewards which the service had instituted to encourage them to volunteer information on suspected criminals to enable the police to curb crime.
The Deputy Inspector General of Police Mr Mohammed Alhassan, in an address, said effective law enforcement was a shared responsibility and that good results could not be achieved without collaborative effort between the police and society.
He commended the Rotary Club of Tema for the initiative and asked other organisations to emulate the example.
Mr Alhassan gave an assurance that the police administration would make efforts to equip the station and provide it with a vehicle to enable the police personnel to work efficiently to serve the communities.
The Deputy IGP noted that population growth and corresponding crime wave with its socio-economic dynamics had continued to take a toll on the budget of the police.
Mr Alhassan appealed to the public and police personnel who would be sent there to ensure the safety of the facility to justify the substantial investment made by the Rotary Club of Tema.
The President of the Rotary Club of Tema, Mr John Bisiw, announced that the project was financed locally by the Club and appealed to the Police Administration to equip the station immediately to make it functional.
Mr Bisiw said hitherto residents had witnessed car snatching and strange killings in the Communities, but was optimistic that residents would now enjoy some tranquillity because of the presence of the police in the area .
Mr Bisiw, however, appealed to the Tema Metropolitan Assembly to provide a drainage to solve a major drainage challenge that faced the area in the frontage of the building.
Tema Regional Police Commander and the Tema Mantse Nii Adjei Kraku assisted the Vice-President to cut the tape to declare the station open.
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