The Central Regional Police Commander DCOP Stephen Andoh Couffie has accused the judiciary in the region of increasingly frustrating the police by freeing suspected criminals. He said the situation was greatly hampering the activities of the police and lowering the morale of police personnel in the region. He was addressing a heads of department meeting in Cape Coast. Joy News' Central Region correspondent Richard Kojo Nyarko who was present said the meeting was to take stock of the achievements of the police as well as enumerate challenges the institution was facing. The Regional Police commander minced no words in sharing their frustration over what he said was the increasing rate at which criminal suspects have been freed by the judiciary. He said the police go through painstaking investigations and sometimes life threatening operations to arrest some of these criminals only for them to be freed by the judiciary. He admonished the judiciary to team up with the police to combat crime instead of frustrating their efforts. That notwithstanding, DCOP Couffie pledged the unflinching desire of the police to fight criminal activities especially in Kasoa.