Police station for Kumasi campus of University of Education
An unsuccessful Parliamentary aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kwadaso Constituency, Dr Charles Dwamena, has, through his TAED Foundation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Education, Kumasi Campus. to put up police station for the institution at an estimated cost of Gh¢140,000.
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The project which will be constructed in two phases is projected to be ready in eight months.
The construction of the police station, is in response to an increase in crime, particularly on the university campus in Tanoso and the Kwadaso Constituency in general.
This compelled the leadership of the student body to write to the university authorities requesting for security to be strengthened on campus.
Many students are reported to have lost valuables, including laptops, through the activities of miscreants whose modus operandi has been very difficult to unravel.
Dr Dwamena, who at one-time escaped gunshots fired by armed robbers, was moved by the plight of the students and therefore decided to partner with the university to construct a police station on the Kumasi campus. Even though the police station is to be built on the university land, it would serve the entire Kwadaso community.
The project is under TAED Foundation’s “One Police Post Per a Town” programme. Already, the foundation, under the programme has completed two police posts at Apre and Kwadaso Nsuom .The University of Education Police Station is its biggest enterprise to date.
In the last 15 months, the Ashanti Regional Police Command under DCOP Nathan Kofi Boakye has inaugurated 16 police posts, 25 police stations and nine district police stations.
The Deputy Regional Police Commander, ACP Ampofo Doku, who was present at the sod-cutiing ceremony for the new police station gave the assurance that the service would stamp out crime on the campus and also assured students of a secure environment that would promote teaching and learning.
“Those without questionable character should not be afraid but we will deal with those with shady characters who make life uncomfortable for others,” he stressed.
The Principal of the university, Prof Reynolds Okai, promised that the university would accommodate police officers to be posted to the station when it was completed.