“No policeman should be intimidated” - DCOP  Boakye


Personnel of the Ghana Police Service have been told not to allow anyone irrespective of background or political affiliation to intimidate them while discharging their duties.

“No policeman should be intimidated,” the Ashanti regional police commander DCOP Kofi Boakye told his men while commissioning a police station within his jurisdiction.

He advised the peace officers that “political parties will come and go” but the police “will remain” hence they must not be in bed with any party or politician because that will be detrimental to their profession.

DCOP Boakye stressed to his men that they source their powers and mandate from the Constitution – the supreme document – of Ghana, therefore they should not be cowed in discharging their duties irrespective of the government in power.

“Anybody who will fall foul of the law we shall arrest him,” the police capo served notice.

DCOP  Boakye's comments come on the heels of threats by members of the Let My Votes Count Alliance and their allies alleging that the police are being pushed by some political forces.

Meanwhile, the convener the pressure group LMVC says they will not carry out their planned demonstration because they are law abiding and would go by the courts decision. 

GBC