Ghananewsonline.com.gh has uncovered damning accounts of victimization and gross disregard for laid down procedures at the Volta regional Police command.
Sources close to the command told this portal that exhibits of narcotic substances seized from criminals have either gone missing from the storage, or cannot be accounted for and criminals arrested with the substances released with no tangible explanation.
According to a senior police officer attached to the Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the command who pleaded to remain anonymous, officers who have the courage to question these happenings are either victimized or threatened with transfers from the command, apparently to keep them silent.
Our source further revealed that these unprofessional conducts began sometime in April 2023, when some individuals were arrested by the Ketu South Police Command, with substances believed to be narcotics and were transferred to the regional command for further investigations.
Our source said the prosecutor on the case only realized that the substances (narcotics) could not be found when it was time to tender them in court as evidence during prosecution.
Our source pointed accusing fingers at some senior police officers at the regional command, alleging that the substances may have been resold to the criminals behind the illegal drug trade and the suspects released for lack of evidence.
This brings to question the commitment of the police to deal with these unscrupulous individuals behind the rising illegal drug trade and their ability to enforce the law on the menace in the region.
Meanwhile frantic efforts by our new team to verify the authenticity or otherwise of these reports at the command, have so far proved futile.
Watch this space for more on this developing story.
By Leo Nelson || Ghananewsonline.com.gh