Unemployed in Police grips for impersonation

By Jerry Azanduna, GNA

Bawku (UE) July 4, GNA - Nicholas Kofi Owusu, 28 year old unemployed has been arrested by the Bawku Police for posing as a police recruit under training at the Kpawlugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region.

Owusu who hails from the Ashanti Region and stays in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region was arrested by the Police in Bawku based on a tip off from an alleged victim who is a Community Police Assistant and a resident in Bawku.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Yao Tettegah who confirmed the incident in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the Police Assistant told the Police that the suspect came to her house wearing a Lacoste with police inscriptions on it and introduced himself as a police recruit at the Kpwalugu Police Training School.

ACP Tettegah said the accused told the Police Assistant to provide him with some money to buy police boots and shoes to enable him pass out from the Training School, because government was unable to provide recruits with such accoutrements.

He said the Police Assistant upon careful examination realized that the accused was not a police recruit and reported him to the Bawku police who invited the suspect for further interrogations.

ACP Tettegah said when the suspect was arrested, a search conducted on him, revealed a handcuff key, Police belt and a Police Lacoste Tee shirt.

Mr Tettegah said further investigations revealed that the suspect was not a recruit from the said school.

ACP Tettegah disclosed that Owusu was subsequently charged for impersonation and stealing.

He said the suspect has been remanded into police custody by a District Court in Bawku, presided over Mr Joseph Akuoko, to reappear on July 19 this year for hearing.

GNA

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