Police Land Guards Abduct Detective … COP Teye-Cudjoe Opens Investigation Into Bizarre Incident At Shai Hills

The Director General of Police Operations, Commissioner of Police  (COP) Emmanuel Teye-Cudjoe, is investigating circumstances that led to a near confrontation between two Police teams at Shai Hills, in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region.

The incident occurred on Saturday when a team of officers from Tema, whose official duty point to provide land security at the request of a developer, was besieged by a squad, which emerged from the Police Headquarters Operations Unit.

Tension rose as the two groups faced off at the site, but the situation was de-escalated by the Tema Regional Police Operations Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Jean Kpelli, before violence broke out.

Verified information from the Police Headquarters indicates that the movement of the operations squad was not officially sanctioned.It was reportedly an arbitrary decision taken by an individual within the unit.

COP Teye-Cudjoe has opened the probe to establish how the unsanctioned team was mobilised, who authorised the movement and what led to the standoff with the Tema officers who were on lawful duty.

Reports put together by The Chronicle reveals that a real estate developer, Mr Rush Asare, has secured a piece of land in front of the VIK-FRANZ SCHOOL COMPLEX at Shai Hills on the Tema-Akosombo highway.

But when he commenced construction of fence wall and a gate, he was harassed by landguards. He subsequently proceeded to the Tema Regional Police Command to lodge a complaint and applied for security, which was provided.

The regional operations unit in Tema, which was handling the assignment tactically positioned their men, not on the ground, but outside, in wait for the supposed landguards.

That on Friday May 1, 2026 workers of Mr Rush Asare went to place a gate to the fenced parcel of land.

In the early hours of Saturday May 2, 2026 a group of armed men in mufti, drove two unmarked white pickups, with registration numbers GG 972-24 and GS 241-24 to the site and took occupancy of the place.

Prior to the arrival of the illegal operation team, about thirty (30) hefty men assembled in front of the gate, as though waiting for directives to act.

When the police illegal team wielding sophisticated weapons took positions to wardoff any potential threat, the hefty men pulled down the walls, gate and gained access to the entire perimeter.

Information got to Asare regarding the takeover of his property by the unknown group and subsequently alerted the Tema Police of the latest development.

Asare also proceeded to the nearby Afienya Police Station to report for action.An investigator, Sergeant David Afeke was assigned to the case and so he accompanied the Tema Police who happened to be around, to the site/scene to ascertain happenings on the ground.

On their arrival in police uniforms and a marked vehicle, the situation became so tensed and as the detective who was in mufti entered the yard to conduct his own preliminary enquiries, he was accosted by the unknown armed men, right in the presence of the equally armed police personnel from the port city.

Report has it that, even though the investigator allegedly introduced himself as a police investigator officer and went ahead to show his identity card, he was still bundled into one of the two ‘standby’ pickups, specifically GG 972-24 and whisked away to an unknown destination.

Sensing danger and to avoid confrontation and the consequential bloodbath, the Regional Operations Commander, DSP, Mr Kpelli, tactically withdrew his men to a safer ground pending further instructions.

On the way in the illegal headquarters operations vehicle, on which edges were displayed with bold inscription ‘police’ bulletproof vests, Sgt Afeke was said to have reached out to the Afienya District Police Commander and reported how he was ‘abducted’.

The Commander in turn decided to speak with the leadership in the pickup and after a banter on the line, they returned the captured investigator to the site/scene.

By this time when The Chronicle sneaked to the area unnoticed, the fully armed men in mufti remained alert as workers, masons and labourers actively took part in the construction of block works inside the now open yard.

The Chronicle contacted one Mr Tawiah alleged to have organized the headquarters operations team to the ground, but he denied responsibility.

According to him, the said piece of land belongs to him, but found it strange that each time he went there to work, persons he described as ‘landguards’ came to harass him.

He told The Chronicle how he was once placed behind the counter at the Emefs Police Station, Afienya, only to be saved by an acquaintance senior police officer at the Police Headquarters in Accra.

The said acquaintance, senior police officer and another, whose names cropped up at the site/scene, all at the headquarters when reached by The Chronicle, both denied any knowledge of the presence of the mufti wearing, heavily armed men who forcibly occupied the parcel of land last Saturday.

The Director General of Police Operations, COP Teye-Cudjoe when reached expressed disappointment in what happened and that he had personally decided to probe and appropriate sanctions applied where necessary.

 

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