Police arrest five for manufacturing weapons

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested five suspects for allegedly engaging in the manufacturing of firearms.

The five include Pele Aziaku, 50 and Washington Kpovi, 40 all black smiths and three minors aged under 17 years.

Intelligence

Briefing media personnel in Cape Coast on Friday, the Central Regional Police Commander, COP Paul Manly Awini said the three were arrested upon intelligence gathered by the police as part of strategies it had mounted to curb crime and enhance security in the region.

COP Awini said the suspects were rounded up in a special police operation undertaken between 2:40 am and 5 am yesterday at three different locations in the Assin Foso municipality.

The police retrieved one locally manufactured pistol, six long barrel guns, an equipment adapted for producing locally manufactured guns, the butt of a weapon, assault knives and a number of scissors.

He said in one of the locations where one of the suspects were arrested the police also retrieved a white substance suspected to be cocaine, scissors and four assault knives.

Crime combat

He gave the assurance that the police in the region would work hard to combat crime.

Robbery

Touching on the robbery case that occurred on the Cape Coast-Accra highway on Thursday, COP Awini said the police had mounted a search for the robbers.

He said the police received a distress call around 6:30 pm on that day that there were robbers robbing passengers on a section of the highway and dispatched a team from different locations to the spot but the robbers fled before the police arrived at the scene.

He said six vehicles were attacked and robbed during the attack.

Tactics review

He said the command had reviewed its tactics after a careful assessment of the incident and the response of the police to ensure such an incident did not occur again.