The Police administration has dismissed reports accusing it of unfairly delaying the implementation of its internal inquiry against its interdicted Director General of Human Resource COP Patrick Timbilla.<\/p>\n
Mr Timbilla was indicted almost two years ago<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for his alleged role in a recruitment scam that hit the service.<\/p>\n But the Police are yet to act on its report months after it completed the\u00a0inquiry.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”m8ZCw7hUkWW2Hqcmrp5tOzPfu3N9v8Cl”]In a Citi News<\/strong> interview, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, said the seeming delay is to ensure that the rights of the COP Timbilla are not violated.<\/p>\n He explained that they are done with their internal investigations adding that \u201cthe reason why this thing has taken such a long time is because of the witnesses involved.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026This is somebody\u2019s fate and so you can\u2019t make any wishy-washy investigation and trial and then that is the end of it because his right is at stake. So there is the need for us to do due diligence and ensure that nobody\u2019s rights are trampled upon under the pretext of fast tracking the case. The defendant also kept on calling witnesses and you can\u2019t just say that stop because you don\u2019t know which witness will give him a weightier evidence to extricate himself,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Timbillah\u2019s docket forwarded to AG<\/strong><\/p>\n The Police forwarded\u00a0COP Timbilla’s docket to the office of the Attorney General for further action in September 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Former Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Alhassan, told the media that\u00a0\u201cthe matter is still under service enquiry,\u201d adding that\u00a0\u201cyou may note that this involve so many people throughout the country and due process sometime takes time because you have to call witnesses from all over the country.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey & Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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