{"id":241781,"date":"2016-08-22T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241781"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:55:03","slug":"police-may-rescind-decision-to-leave-donkorkrom-if-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241781","title":{"rendered":"Police may rescind decision to leave Donkorkrom if… IGP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Inspector General Police (IGP), John Kudalor, has indicated the administration may review its decision to withdraw personnel from Donkorkrom and its surrounding communities, after a security assessment today [Monday].<\/p>\n

According to the IGP, he has received petitions calling for a review of the decision but will only go ahead to review it after his assessment of the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n

He is currently leading a team of police officers to assess the situation at Donkorkrom in the Afram plains area in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n

\"IGP\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The police administration last week, announced a withdrawal of its personnel<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from Donkorkrom and other communities, following an attack on its barracks and police station by some angry residents.<\/p>\n

The residents were protesting against the police for the escape of two police officers alleged to have attacked and tried to rob a GCB bullion van.<\/p>\n

IGP Kudalor spoke to Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Franklin Badu Jnr saying, \u201cIt depends. It is only a fool that doesn\u2019t change his mind. I want to go there and assess it. If they say something that we feel is commendable\u2026 why not. We may give them conditions and deadlines but we will see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u00a0however maintained that the police did not err in its decision to withdraw its men from the area following the unrest.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cthis is not the first time a police station has been closed down. As I said, this one was closed down because it was vandalized so people get the kind of policing that they want. If they want to cooperate with the policing, it is a shared responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

The attempted robbery led to the death of the driver of the van after a heated exchange of gunfire between the police officer in the van and the suspects.<\/p>\n

The escapees were later captured<\/a><\/span><\/strong> at their hideouts and have\u00a0subsequently been sent to the Police National Headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n

Prior to their capturing, some residents in areas where the incident occurred on Thursday went on rampage and vandalized some Police stations at Donkorkrom and Tease to demand the speedy arrest of the fugitives.<\/p>\n

They reportedly ended up setting ablaze the Donkorkrom Police station and pelted the officers with stones leading to the Police’s decision to withdraw from the area.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inspector General Police (IGP), John Kudalor, has indicated the administration may review its decision to withdraw personnel from Donkorkrom and its surrounding communities, after a security assessment today [Monday]. According to the IGP, he has received petitions calling for a review of the decision but will only go ahead to review it after his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}