FIVE suspects who were found in possession of three 9-mm pistols, 273 rounds of ammunition, as well as cartons of cloths that looked like materials for the security services, have been arrested by the Western Regional Police.
The cloths were marked ‘Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)’ and were in substantial quantities.
When they were arrested, the principal suspect, who claimed to be the president of an NGO called Canadian Foundation for Child Development, attempted to bribe the police with GH¢5,000 and two of the pistols.
But the police, led by ASP J. Attia, the second-in-command of the Mobile Force Unit of the Ghana Police Service, declined the bribe and matched the suspects to the Western Regional Police Command.
The suspects were identified as Kweku Addo-Ray, the supposed president of the NGO, Jennifer Pamela, Kofi Mensah, E. Agyeman Boateng and Emmanuel Kojo Ofori.
Other items found on them included black T-shirts, black caps and overalls with POLICE boldly written on them.
Briefing the press after interrogating the suspects, the W estern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, said the leader of the NGO said they were going to donate the items to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in Kumasi.
“I must say that Ghana is a sovereign state and items such as the overalls embossed with the name and symbols of the police of another country cannot be accepted by us. We are still investigating the suspects and the items,” DCOP Alhassan said.
“I must also add that policing in the region and the country as a whole has taken a different turn and the issue of bribing the police is out of the question,” he added.
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