The Central Regional Police
Command has detained a 50-year-old driver for running over one of its officers
at a snap checkpoint at Apam.
In an interview with JoyNews, the Regional Police
Public Relations Officer (PRO), DSP Irene Serwaa Opong said Francis Akese who
was driving a KIA truck with registration number CR 319-11 lost concentration
while driving.
This, she said, resulted in him knocking down
39-year-old Sergeant Salihu Hifzullar who was on snap check duty.
The incident which occurred on
Saturday at Greenfields’ snap check on the Mankessim- Apam severely injured the
officer.
However, Sergeant Hifzullar died whilst receiving
treatment at the Catholic hospital in Apam.
Earlier this year, a police officer with the Legon
Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) died after he was run
over by the driver of a commercial vehicle, popularly known as ‘trotro’.
According to reports, Sergeant Moses Appiah was
pronounced dead at the 37 Military Hospital where he was sent for treatment
after the incident.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said the driver ran over the
officer when he stood in front of his bus in a bid to avoid arrest.
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