SUSPECTED CRIMINALS ARRESTED IN TAMALE (BACK PAGE)

Personnel of the Northern Regional Police Command at the weekend arrested 39 suspected criminals in a dawn swoop on their respective hideouts.
During the exercise, the police found seven polythene bags containing dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, pairs of scissors, a number of motorbikes and bicycles and GH¢85.
Briefing the media on the operation in Tamale, the Deputy Northern Regional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Lord Obeng-Mensah, said the suspected criminals were arrested at their hideouts at the Aboabo Forest area, the Gumani Forest and the Tishegu toilet area, all in the Tamale metropolis, and around the Savelugu Market in the Savelugu-Nanton District.
He explained that the operation was part of the routine exercise by the Regional Police Command to check crime in the metropolis and in the region at large.
Chief Supt Obeng-Mensah intimated that the exercise had been intensified because of several reports received by the police concerning the increasing spate of crime, particularly around the hideouts of the suspects.
He further disclosed that some residents had, on several occasions, reported to the police that their valuable items had allegedly been seized by some criminals around their hideouts, while others complained of various forms of harassment at the hands of the alleged criminals.