General News of Wednesday, 24 August 2016Source: ultimatefmonline.comFamily pressures cause of police involvement in robbery and fraud - Cephas ArthurSuperintendent Cephas ArthurThe Ghana Police service says societal and family pressures are to blame for the increasing number of personnel engaging in lawlessness including fraud and robbery. Recently, two policemen who escaped arrest for leading an armed robbery syndicate to attack a GCB Bank Bullion Van at Donkokrom were recaptured amidst protestation from residents who want all cops in the area transferred. “No matter how stringent your measures of background checks are, you would still get people slipping in, and then it is also not everybody who comes into the service and commits an act of criminality that has a criminal record before coming. Some people come into the service, they done the uniform and the uniform confers a lot of powers upon them. Powers that they are supposed to use to the benefit of the people and because of pressures of the family, pressures of the society they tend to abuse it.

Source: GhanaWeb August 24, 2016 10:18 UTC