The Ghana Police Service has interdicted two officers for his or her incapability to account for faux CFA 190,000 of their possession as exhibit.
A 3rd officer concerned within the lacking faux forex has resigned from the service with the police taking steps to trace him down.
This was made identified by the Inspector Common of Police, Dr George Akufo Dampare, in Accra yesterday when he appeared earlier than Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to reply to audit queries pertaining to the Service.
He defined that in a routine verify by his males in Tarkwa in 2016, the police got here into contact with 4 folks in a automobile and checks on them led to the invention of foreign currency echange; some dominated in {dollars} and CFA franc.
“After they analysed it immediately, with their instincts, they thought that there was one thing incorrect with the currencies and couldn’t be real.
“In order that they picked them up and took them by way of the method of investigations and because of this, these values had been despatched to the CID headquarters and the fitting folks to take a second take a look at the currencies to point whether or not they had been real or not are the international locations the place this currencies are used.”
The US {dollars}, he mentioned, had been despatched by way of the US Embassy to the authorities in America to assist out decide the genuineness of the cash.
“We adopted up in July final yr with a request asking them to provide us info on it however since then, nothing has come. We followed up even this morning with a cellphone name from Interpol pleading with them that it’s going to be a topic of dialogue on the PAC they usually assured us that they may get again to us on that matter. That’s for the US {dollars}.”
In respect with the CFA, he mentioned the arresting officers initially realised that it was CFA40,000 however in the middle of investigation, the police discovered that it was greater than the 40,000. It was CFA190,000.
“That quantity was delivered to the CID headquarters and thru the Ministry of International Affairs, it was despatched to the Ivorian authorities to authenticate the genuineness or in any other case of similar.
“The outcome and the accompanying appendix indicated that they had been all faux and the cash was despatched again to the crew at Tarkwa,” he instructed the Committee.
“Since then, there was confusion as to who really acquired it and the whereabouts of the cash,” Dr Dampare mentioned.
“When it got here to our consideration, we seemed on the matter and recognized three officers who had been concerned. Sadly, certainly one of them has resigned from the service and efforts are being made to search for him to be held accountable.
“The opposite two, one within the Tarkwa enclave and the opposite within the Ahafo Area have all been interdicted and the matter has been referred to the Police Skilled Requirements Bureau to conduct investigation for us to know the whereabouts of the faux CFA190, 000 and anyone discovered culpable will probably be handled in accordance with legislation.”
On why a 2016 matter was but to be decided, Dr Dampare mentioned he was “embarrassed” by the delay and underscored the necessity for the police to be swift on issues like this.
“I believe that a few of these issues we shouldn’t enable them to linger on for that lengthy. We’ll preserve participating the authorities for them to provide us the suggestions.
“We will guarantee you that we now have learnt the related classes from this case.”to face subsequent has from on of the doc long-Billy ex-related been being crimes Advocate
BY JULIUS YAO PETETSI
