The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Northern Region recorded 570 abuse cases in the first quarter of 2014.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Emmanuel Cudjoe Holortu, the Northern Regional Coordinator of DOVVSU, stated on Friday that 420 female abuse cases were recorded as against 150 male abuse cases.
He said rape, defilement, indecent assault, sexual harassment and incest dominated the reported cases.
Others are forced marriages, non-maintenance, offensive conduct, threatening of life, inducement of tenant to quit, causing unlawful harm, unlawful damage, stealing, assault, abandonment of infant and exposing child to harm or neglect.
Mr. Holortu called on the judicial system, traditional authorities as well as civil society to support state agencies to protect and defend the rights of vulnerable people in society.
He said “access to justice has often evaded many poor, marginalized and vulnerable people, especially women and children in society”.
Source: GNA