THE Vice-President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has inaugurated a police station at Tema Community 11 to help curb activities of armed robbers and other anti-social elements in the community.
The facility, which was constructed by the Rotary Club of Tema at an estimated cost of GH¢80,000 to serve Communities 10, 11 and 12, has a female, male and juvenile cells.
Mr Mahama commended the Rotary Club for its effort to support the Ghana Police Service to fight crime.
He stated that communities had a stake in their own safety by identifying criminals in their vicinity.
The Vice-President said the government was taking steps to equip the police by installing a new database for fingerprint and to upgrade its laboratories for DNA tests.
The Vice-President, who is also the Chairman of the Police Council, observed that the police in Ghana were working under challenging circumstances and called on society to encourage them 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 to work harder.
The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Alhassan, said effective law enforcement was a shared responsibility without which good results could not be achieved.
He gave an assurance that the police administration would make efforts to equip the station and provide it with a vehicle to enable the police to work efficiently to serve the communities by fighting crime effectively.
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 three communities and expressed optimism that residents would now enjoy some tranquillity because of the presence of the police in the area.
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