District Superintendent of Police, DSP Albert Delatsa of the Somanya Police Station in the Eastern region has been speaking to Rite news concerning the drop in crime rate in the last half of the year, 2015.
Mr. Delatsa who had been at post since June, 2015 told Rite news that though incidents of crime continued to rear its ugly head in the municipality, the phenomenon has generally reduced since he took office.
Rite FM therefore took it upon itself to find out from the district police commander the extent to which his outfit dealt with crime as well to find out about the statistics in the past year.
DSP Delatsa giving a breakdown of crime statistics between July and December 2015 noted that offences of narcotics, threats of death, threats of harm and offences of stolen property accounted for some of the lowest crimes reported while that of assault recorded the highest reports.
Here is a breakdown of the statistics as per the third and fourth quarters of 2015 respectively. Assault cases between July and September, as well as between October and December were 23 and 43 respectively, threat of harm, 19 and 2 respectively, threat of death, 4 and 2 respectively. Others for the third quarter included causing damage, 17, stealing, 21, defrauding by false pretences, 19, offensive conduct, 5, defrauding by breach of trust, 2, offences of stolen properties, 1 and narcotics,1 case. In all a total of 136 cases were reported to his outfit while 8 had been sent to court within that quarter.
Other figures for the fourth quarter included threat of damage, 13 as well as causing harm, 4. In all, the DSP said crime reduced by a total of 99 cases over the first quarter of the year 2015.
A confident Mr. Delatsa told Rite news’ Doris Owusu that his term of office so far has seen a rapid reduction in crime cases due largely to the ability of him and his able men to confront crime head-on. He said this was achieved through increased police patrols in his municipality.
Source: ritefmonline.org
