The police service has described those demanding the removal of the IGP as ‘irresponsible detractors’. It wants Ghanaians to disregard claims by such groups or persons that the Inspectors General of Police is incompetent. Yesterday, pressure group Alliance For Accountable Governance held a news conference to support calls by MP for Okreh, Dan Botwe, that the IGP should resign. It claims Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye’s continued stay in office is a threat to peaceful elections in 2012 because he failed to take action against trouble-makers in the recent Atiwa by election. Leaders of AFAG are threatening massive demonstrations to ensure the IGP is removed. “Our position is not just based on the by-election; this is just among other things,” Martin Adjei Mensah, a leading member of AFAG told Joy News Dzifa Bampoe. According to Mr Adjei Mensah, the IGP has shown beyond doubt that he is unable to “defend our Constitution and protect individual liberties and human rights.” But Director of Police Public Affairs, Superintendent Kwesi Ofori, dismisses all the charges against his boss. Mr Kwesi Ofori said the call by AFAG is “baseless and it is unfortunate. The police deployed enough personnel to Atiwa to police the by-election, culminating in the successful conduct of the election.” “Rather than blame the police for their woes, what the political parties need to do is a serious soul-searching, need to purge themselves of all irresponsible and negative tendencies which are at variance with the tenets of democracy,” he said. The police PRO also warned persons claiming to have lost trust in the police and wanting to arm themselves to desist from it because the police would crash them. Source: