New Juaben South Municipal Police Commander Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Odonkor Baah has indicated that to enhance security surveillance in communities to minimize the rapid rise of the crime rate, there is the need for effective community and police partnership.
According to the Commander, one of these critical partnerships is the formation of community watchdog committees in at least all the communities in the New Juaben South Municipality to augment efforts to enhance security.
He said with the formation of the community watch committees, crime-related issues regarding stealing goats, sheep, and burglaries will be drastically reduced.
Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Odonkor Baah said this when he inaugurated a community watch committee at Nyamekrom in Koforidua in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern region.
Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Odonkor Baah, stressed that community watchdog committee members were cautiously selected after background checks and hence qualify.
He said the biometric details of the members have been captured by the New Juaben South Municipal Police Command to ensure that they work by the police rules and regulations.
The assembly member for the Nyamekrom electoral area Hon. Enoch Boahene stated that the high crime rate in the electoral area forced him and the Chiefs to request the formation of a community watchdog committee to augment police efforts to deal with the menace.
He is hopeful crime rate particularly theft and burglary in the electoral area will be reduced.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
