The Police Administration has embarked on a silent crusade to combat the surge in violent crimes, with the Police Intelligence Directorate (PID) and operational wings at the forefront of the campaign.
Through a series of strategic operations and intelligence-led interventions, they have lately recorded notable successes in their encounter with the criminal elements in the3 country.
Ongoing investigation by The Chronicle has revealed that the police have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to adopt a robust trend in tackling sophisticated crimes.
The PID, according to The Chronicle investigations, has been instrumental in gathering and analysing intelligence, enabling the police to anticipate and disrupt the plans of criminal groups.
On the other hand, the operations wings – Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT), Formed Police Unit (FPU), Anti-Armed Robbery Unit (AARU), Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) and the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) – have also been proactive, conducting targeted operations to apprehend suspects and dismantling criminal networks.
The administration has shown the willingness to engage with criminal elements and recent encounters have resulted in the arrest of several high-profile suspects.
Asawase
Latest report The Chronicle gathered from Asawase, under Manhyia Division in Ashanti Region, is that the men on the ground with the slogan ‘no retreat, no surrender’ have, in the first two days of this month, chalked remarkable successes in their bid to eliminate the miscreants.
That, on Friday, August 1, 2025 at about 8:35pm personnel at a Snap checkpoint nabbed one Issah Ibrahim for carrying forty-three (43) rounds of 5.7.15mm of ammunition and One (1) Phoenix Ontario-CA pistol and eleven (11) rounds of 5.7.15mm ammunition retrieved from his Toyota salon car with registration number GE 9143-18.
At Unity Oil, Sawaba Junction Snap checkpoint, the men intercepted twelve (12) Bore S.B. PA Shot Gun and twelve (12) cartridges from a certain KwadwoAgyapong.
Both suspects are currently assisting the police in their investigation to unravel the sources of the munitions.
On same Friday, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr Emmanuel Teye-Cudjoe, led a team on a Snapcheck inspections and community engagements atAsawase and the surrounding areas.
The team engaged the Kusasi community, encouraging cooperation and commended them to be restrained. The regional commander’s team also visitedthe Mamprusi Chief in SabonZongo.
Volta Region
In Ho, Volta Region, our intelligence picked up reliable information that on Wednesday July 2, 2025 at about 11pm, an ‘Okada’ operator, Reuben Adzo, was engaged by a man to transport him to Taviefe for an agreed fee.
On reaching a section close to the final destination, the pillion rider requested the biker to stop, and when he did, another man emerged from the bush, wielding a pistol, pointed it at him and threatened the rider to either surrender his Sonlink motorbike and money or be killed.
Though Reuben resisted, the two men overpowered and robbed him of the bike and an amount of GHC 150.00 (One hundred and fifty Ghana Cedis).
Police investigation yielded fruition when on July 27, 2025 the PID in the Volta Region arrested one of the suspects, Yusif Nyarko (39), from his hideout at Nudu, near Juapong.
Prior to committing the crime that night, while on the bike, Nyarko requested that he should be taken to a Pharmacy, where he went to buy some drugs.
Fortunately, a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) camera captured him.He named his accomplice as one Christian Kporfor (32) of AlavanyoWudidi and then latter was lured to Kpando and also apprehended.
In the cause of interrogation, both admitted to committing the act and that the bike was sold at GHC 6000.00 (Six thousand Ghana Cedis) to a certain Obosom at Achimota.
Police proceeded to Achimota, but Obosom, who had a hint of the policearrival abandoned the motorbike and fled, but the officers retrieved the bike.
Ashanti Bekwai
On Thursday July 31, 2025 The Chronicle understands police in Ashanti Bekwai responded to a distress call that a group of armed gangsters had blocked a road leading to a mining site – Alex Mining Co. Ltd-and shot an AK47 assault rifle through the front windscreen of a Toyota Hilux, with registration number GW 4366-16 driven by Roger Abarika, carrying gold concentrate from the site.
The debris of the shattered windscreen hit the chest of a worker, William Opoku Asamoah, who was on board the vehicle, injuring him in the process. A security man accompanying the driver, armed with a pump action gun, returned fire killing the gunman instantly.His two accomplices bolted into the bush.
Police, upon arrival at the scene, retrieved AK47 assault rifle number AZ 7115 1999, two magazines loaded with 30 and 27 rounds of ammunition respectively, anxmage Huawei mobile phone, a driver’s license bearing the name Abeyoo Abdulai and an amount of GHC 185.00 (One hundred and eighty-five Ghana Cedis), five spent BB cartridges.
Esiama Division
FromEsiama Division in the Western Region, The Chronicle was told that on Thursday, July 31, 2025, the Assemblyman for Anwiah and Teleku Bokazo communities sent a distress call tothe police that robbery had occurred at a gold buying shop at Teleku Bokazo.
At the scene, police was informed that the robbers fled and headed towards Salman community wielding AK47 assault rifle and machetes.
As police pursued, and on seeing the crime fighters, the robbers opened fire and escaped into the bush.The officers returned fire and followed up only to realize that one of the robbers who mentioned his name as Abdul Rahman (34), was critically injured. He mentioned a certain Mohammed and others as his accomplices.
He was arrested and sent to St Martin De Porres Hospital, Eikwe, for treatment but died shortly after admission.
Investigation at the gold buying shop reveals that the robbers numbering six inflicted cutlass and gunshot wounds on the two attendants who were rushed to the same hospital for treatment.
The victims were Samuel Appiah (29) with cutlass injuries to his right thigh and Kwame Nketiah (45), who was shot at the right thigh.
Fifteen (15) rounds of ammunition for AK47 assault rifle belonging to the robbers were retrieved.
Atebubu
From Atebubu in the Bono East Region, this reporter gathered that on Wednesday July 30, 2025, gunmen blocked and robbed commuters between the Amantin and Atebubu highway.
Two of the robbers who, even though were wearing face mask, were identified by a victim as Baba and his brother, Manu. The robbery victim stays with these identified robbers in the same community at Afrefreso.
When the Police closed in on the suspects, Baba rushed to the room and picked up a machete and together with suspect Manu attacked the police who were left with no option, but to fire at them fatally.A search conducted on suspect Manu, including a waist bag that he was carrying uncovered a locally manufactured pistol.
Further search in their room led to the discovery of talismans and gods believed to be for their spiritual fortifications. Also the PID deployment from the headquarters in Accra and Bono East Region respectively during one of their joint patrols and escort of commuters between Kwame Danso and Atebubu came under fire in their unmarked vehicle.
The armed bandits numbering about eight incidentally ambushed some vehicles and were robbing the occupants. When the police car was approaching the scene, the officers were signalled to stop amidst sporadic shooting.
Police returned fire hitting two of the suspects who fell and died instantly.
The rest, however, bolted into the bush and a search conducted on the deceased led to shotgun, live cartridges, four spent cartridges and a machete found by their side.
Their bodies were deposited at the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman for autopsy.
Col Festus Aboagye (rtd) in a telephone conversation lauded the efforts of the police in keeping the miscreants at bay.
According to him, the police’s action needed to be sustained in all parts of the country.
He stated that, what the police needed now was logistics to be proactive and unsettle the criminal elements.
He appreciates the fact that His Excellency the President, John Dramani Mahama has promised to retool the police to enable them to meet the challenges.
