The Police administration is on high alert as it intensifies patrols across the country, to quell security situations that may threaten peace after the Supreme Court ruling on the election petition hearing in August.Director-General of Police Operations, COP John Kudalor, told Joy News his outfit is preparing for all possible security threat scenarios before judgment is delivered.The Police are on high alert following fears that tension is building in the country as the Supreme Court comes to a close on the hearing of a petition challenging the election of John Mahama as president. There are fears the tensions could result in chaos if the ruling did not favour either of the parties.The West Africa Network for Peace Building (WANEP-Ghana) in its quarterly report on security in the country identified Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern regions as the most volatile areas in the country in the wake of the Supreme Court hearing.WANEP-Ghana, a security Civil Society Organisation (CSO), urged the security agencies to be on high alert in preserving the nation’s peace especially during the period of the election petition trial.According to the WANEP report, “polarisation of the Ghanaian environment by political and governance related issues has for a long time been a threat to the country’s political and social stability; within the past quarter of the year, a total of 14 (20% of all incidents) politically related incidents were capture...which represents the second highest threatening indicator in the quarter. Of the 14 political incidents, 7 out of 25 arrests made by the security agencies were politically related.”The report also stated that Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western and Central regions saw an increase in violent and criminal activities during the quarter; although the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions recorded fewer incidents overall, chieftaincy and land-related incidents were in the majority.