A POLICE officer, Sergeant Kwame Atinkorang suffered some internal injuries when he was allegedly attacked by an unidentified youth group in Tamale last Saturday after arresting a motorist for committing a traffic offence.
The officer, who was rushed to the Tamale Teaching Hospital for treatment, only gained consciousness yesterday and is currently responding to treatment. No arrest has been made yet.
According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Ebenezer Tetteh, the incident occurred around the central business district.
That was after the victim had released a motorist who committed a traffic offence and asked him to report to the police after his motorist licence had been confiscated.
Some unidentified youth later pounced on Sgt Atinkorang and beat him up mercilessly for what could be described as a reprisal attack for the arrest and detention of the attackers’ colleague.
According to the PRO, earlier, a motorist, who was riding without a crash helmet, had been arrested and detained at the Police charge office.
Later, colleagues of the suspect rushed to the charge office and obstructed the work of the police.
In the process, Mr Tetteh said, they acted violently for which reason three of them were also placed in custody.
Upon hearing about the incident, many of their colleagues also besieged the station demanding the immediate release of the four associates.
He said that created a scene that attracted the attention of the Police high command in the region whose intervention ensured sanity.
The PRO stated that Sgt Atinkorang was later attacked in town when he joined his colleagues to continue with the special exercise to clamp down on motor traffic offences in the metropolis.
At the recent encounter with the media, President Atta Mills expressed grave concern over the growing indiscipline on the roads following which the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, ordered his men to undertake the exercise.
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