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The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante Apeatu, has asked the Regional Crime Manager in Accra and the Commander of the Central Accra Traffic Unit to submit their reports. within a week.
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Three police officers who allegedly badaulted three journalists working for the Ghanaian Times newspaper were arrested.
This is Inspector Isaac Opare of the Divisional Police Ministries, Sergeant Ebenezer Akrofi of the Accra Regional Police Headquarters and Corporal Evans Kofi Ntim of the Unit of visibility of the police in Accra.
ACP David Eklu, Director General for Public Affairs at the Police Headquarters, said that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante Apeatu, had also ordered the regional crime chief in Accra to resume investigation of the police station of the ministries.
"He [IGP] has also instructed the commander of Accra's Central Traffic Unit to take over the "Road Accidents" component. Both must submit their report within a week.
"In addition, the Bureau of Police and Standards Professionals (PPBS) was also charged with reviewing the conduct of police officers who were on duty at the police station of the Ministry when the incident was reported" adds the statement.
This action followed the widely reported badault on New Times Corporation personnel by a police officer as she was traveling to their various places of badignment on March 24 in Kinbu. in Accra.
The journalists concerned, Salifu Abdul Rahman and Raissa Sambou Ebu, who recently underwent a caesarean section, decided to film an accident involving a police officer driving an unregistered motorcycle and the vehicle carrying the journalists.
According to the victims, a dozen policemen unhappy to have tried to record the accident and the subsequent exchanges between their driver and the police biker jumped on the journalists and physically badaulted them. .
The lactating mother collapsed and was transported to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital for medical care.
The reactions
The National Media Commission as well as the Ghana Association of Journalists have described the incident as "barbaric" and have called for speedy investigations into the administration of the police and misguided police officers punished.
In a statement signed by Joseph Whittal, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) said that officers should be tried by a competent court and not by a disciplinary investigation of the Administrative Service.
At the same time, the police force badured that the public would be regularly informed of the measures to be taken.
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