To maintain effective and efficient policing across the nation, the Police Administration has established seven new police regional commands.
The new regions include two each in the Ashanti and Eastern regions, as well as one more Regional Police Command in each of the Volta, Western, and Central regions.
The names of the regions are the Ashanti North and Ashanti South Police regions in the Ashanti Region and the Eastern North and Eastern South region in the Eastern Region, according to Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, who revealed this in an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday.
The remaining regions are the Central North Region, the Western Central Region, and the Volta North Region in the Volta Region. According to the IGP, the purpose of creating new areas was to bring law enforcement closer to the public.
He said that subdividing the current areas into smaller ones would guarantee that all communities would be served by cops and law enforcement.
Background
With the addition of the seven additional police areas, there are now 25 Police National Administrative regions.
Every new region is operating efficiently.
The youngest police region was Tema, which was created out of Accra in 1966, before the Central East Police Region (Kasoa and surrounding communities), which was created out of the Greater Accra and the Central regions in August of last year, and the regional commands for the six newly created regions in the nation.
Breakdown
Three police regions presently exist within the Ashanti Region.
To supplement the current Ashanti Police Region, which has its headquarters in Kumasi, the Ashanti North and South Police Regions each have their own headquarters, one in Mampong and one in Bekwai.
DCOP Anderson Fosu-Ackaah is in charge of Ashanti North, which consists of 45 police stations and posts, four police divisions, 13 police districts, and four police divisions.
The Ashanti South contains four divisions, 14 districts, 63 stations and posts, and is under the authority of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Eric Ken Winful.
With the addition of the new Volta North Police Region and the continuation of the Volta Police Region with its headquarters in Ho, there are now two police regions.
Two police divisions, four police districts, eight police stations and posts, and DCOP Edward Faakye Kumi serving as the regional commander make up the Volta North command.
There are presently three police regions in the Eastern Region.
To supplement the current Eastern Police Region, which has its regional headquarters in Koforidua, the Eastern North Region has its regional headquarters in Mpraeso and the Eastern South Region has its regional headquarters in Kibi.
Three police divisions, six districts, 17 police stations, and postings make up Eastern North, which is overseen by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Isaac Asante.
The regional commander for the Eastern South is DCOP Felix Kwasi Cosmos.
Three police divisions, 16 districts, 52 police stations, and posts are all part of the command.
With the advent of the Western Central Region, which has its headquarters in Tarkwa, there are now two police commands in the Western Region.
Sekondi is home to the command's current headquarters, Western Region.
DCOP Desmond Owusu Boampong is in charge of Western South, which comprises 29 police stations and posts, two police divisions, and eight police districts.
Assin Fosu serves as the regional headquarters for the Central North Police Region.
It contains 30 police stations and posts, two police divisions, seven districts, and is led by DCOP Emmanuel Teye-Cudjoe.
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