Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Henry Bacho, Ejura-Sekyedumase District Police Commander, has vowed to make life uncomfortable for criminals in the area. He said there was no way the police would allow armed robbers and other social miscreants to turn the district into their safe haven and terrorize law abiding citizens with impunity. His pledge follows intermittent highway robbery attacks targeting traders in particular. DSP Bacho said they were working in partnership with their counterparts at Yeji, Atebubu and Asante-Mampong to effectively police the Mampong-Ejura-Atebubu highway. Well patronized weekly markets in those areas, he said, made the road corridor an attraction for robbers who usually hit when traders were returning from the markets. Ejura-Sekyedumase is populated by people from different ethnic background and nationalities and is tagged “ECOWAS,” with the indigenes forming about 10 per cent of the population. DSP Bacho told the Ghana News Agency that they were having difficulty with infrastructure, logistics and numbers and that with a personnel strength of just 39, it was not easy to effectively rein in law-breakers in a “high crime-endemic area”. He expressed concern about the state of disrepair of most police stations in the district adding that some of the buildings were constructed as far back as the 1960s and had since not seen any refurbishment with a good number of them now passing as “death trap.” Police cells for only seven, now accommodated 30 suspects, a situation he said, was serious. DSP Bacho appealed for more police personnel and improvement of the working environment to enable them to function more effectively in the protection of life and property. Source: GNA