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General News of Monday, April 22, 2019
Source: gbcghanaonline.com
2019-04-22
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Police have asked Ghanaians to refrain from administering instant justice to alleged criminals found in their communities, as this made investigations difficult to establish.
Chief Superintendent of Police, Stephen Tane Ngissah, commander of the Ejisu Division Police, gave this notice during an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Ejisu, in the region from Ashanti, about a recent incident in Besease, in the municipality of Ejisu.
He explained that a few weeks ago, his team had learned that an unknown mob had attacked a certain James Oppong, who allegedly had been accused of stealing a pregnant ewe in Besease.
Superintendent Ngissah testified that when the police arrived at the scene, the alleged thief was beaten and became unconscious with the said sheep stolen with him on a street.
He stated that the alleged thief had been declared dead upon his arrival at the Ejisu public hospital and that his body had been deposited at the morgue of the Juaben public hospital in the same town. waiting for the investigation.
The division commander is concerned about acts of this kind committed by the public when he is arresting suspected criminals in their communities.
He stated that it was unlawful for anyone to be legally respected for harbading and murdering an alleged criminal and that the police allowed the law to seize it as soon as those people had been arrested.
He revealed that it had become difficult for the police to gather all the facts about the case so that it could be prosecuted in court, while the main suspect was dead.
Superintendent Ngissah called on the public to entrust the police with any suspected criminal.
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