{"id":79514,"date":"2015-01-05T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79514"},"modified":"2015-01-05T18:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:06:02","slug":"police-impound-over-400-dv-plated-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79514","title":{"rendered":"Police impound over 400 DV-plated vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Accra Regional Police command has impounded 476 unregistered vehicles found within the capital last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/30\/police-impound-342-unlicensed-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This follows a previous exercise<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">in December 2014\u00a0in which <\/span><\/span>the police seized over 400 unregistered vehicles also with the Accra Metropolis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2Qk4IilZAOakQNVsC8Pihjd8FF8JOybe&#8221;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> the Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Christian Tetteh Yohuno said the operation was carried out because some persons were misusing the DP and DV number plates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople are misusing these vehicles which have very limited purposes of use so last Saturday we seized 476 DV and DP plated vehicles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/impounded-cars-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-79520\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/impounded-cars-2.jpg\" alt=\"impounded-cars 2\" width=\"620\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/impounded-cars-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/impounded-cars-2-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said owners of the vehicles have been processed for court, adding that, \u201cthey have been ordered to pay GHC 600 depending on the merits of each case and failure to pay may lead them to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DCOP Yohuno served notice that it was an offence for DV and DP plated vehicles to be used as commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He therefore cautioned owners of unregistered vehicles to register their vehicles or risk the seizure of their cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Regional Police command has impounded 476 unregistered vehicles found within the capital last Saturday. This follows a previous exercise\u00a0in December 2014\u00a0in which the police seized over 400 unregistered vehicles also with the Accra Metropolis. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2Qk4IilZAOakQNVsC8Pihjd8FF8JOybe&#8221;]Speaking to Citi News, the Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Christian Tetteh Yohuno said the operation was carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":79515,"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":[2],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-79514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79514","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}