Cop arrested for robbery already facing police enquiry

It has emerged that Corporal Raymond Amegashie, 35, who was arrested last Wednesday for alleged armed robbery, had been facing service enquiry for a number of crimes he had perpetrated while in uniform.

Between March 2016 and October 2017, Cpl Amegashie, who was enlisted into the Ghana Police Service on April 11, 2006, had been on service enquiry for offences such as breaking into a warehouse and selling a police motorbike.

Sources close to the police administration told the Daily Graphic that the last service enquiry against Cpl Amegashie was instituted on October 13, 2017.

Since joining the service in 2006, Cpl Amegashie, a native of Adzaato, has been stationed with the Tema Regional Police where he was attached to the Tema Police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit.
The sources said the service enquiries were yet to be concluded.

Weapons

The Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr George Alex Mensah, told the Daily Graphic yesterday that preliminary investigations had established that Cpl Amegashie booked for the AK 47 assault rifle for official duties in Tema.

He said after escaping arrest, Cpl Amegashie went back to his post to return the AK 47 assault rifle, adding that although the initial information indicated that the AK 47 assault rifles were two, it turned out to be one.

Returning the rifle, Mr Mensah explained, would have suggested that he was not part of the operation.

He said the police were still interrogating the suspects before they would be put before court.

Background

Cpl Amegashie was arrested at the Tsopoli Barrier around 7 a.m last Wednesday while escaping after he and three other suspects had robbed the Asante Supermarket near the Agricultural Development Bank at Nungua, last Tuesday night.

The three other suspects are Ibrahim Ayirebo, 23, a resident of Community One Site Two, Tema; Bright Dorkanu, 20, of Ashaiman; and Stanley Akorli, 30, of Golf City. Cpl Amegashie was resident at Militia House Police Barracks, Tema.

At the time of Cpl Amegashie’s arrest, he was in a pair of police trousers and boots and a civilian shirt.

Cash retrieved

An amount of GH¢45,000 allegedly stolen by the suspects from the supermarket has been retrieved.

A taxi, with registration number GX 9514-13, which the suspects used for the operation has also been impounded.