The Police will use force to deal with any person who
attempts to or snatches a ballot box, Deputy Commissioner of Police
(DCOP) Kenneth Yeboah, Director General in-charge of Legal of the
Ghana Police Service has said.
He said the Police Administration was putting in place all
necessary security measures to ensure an incident-free elections,
adding "the Service, therefore, would not allow anybody to make our
job difficult".
DCOP Yeboah said this when he led a six-member delegation of
the National Elections Security Taskforce Sub-Technical Committee
to meet with members of the Northern Regional Elections
Security Taskforce in Tamale on Wednesday.
The meeting was to enable the Sub-Technical Committee to
assess the security preparedness of the Regional Elections
Security Taskforce towards the December polls.
DCOP Yeboah said even though the country's elections had been
generally peaceful, the Police Administration would not leave
anything to chance.
He said police officers who would be deployed to provide
security on the polling day would be required to wear official
identity cards to avoid situations where unscrupulous persons would
want to impersonate police personnel.
He therefore called on the Electoral Commission to ensure
that ballot boxes were well-secured and brought to the polling
stations on time.
Mr. Moses Bukari Mabengba, Northern Regional Minister and
Chairman of the Regional Security Council lauded the efforts of the
Taskforce to ensure peaceful polls.
Mr. Mabengba
asked the Police Administration to increase the number of police
personnel in the region on polls
day because the region had its own challenges.
DCOP George Tuffuor, Northern Regional Police Commander
called for the collaboration of all Taskforce members to ensure
success of the polls.
