Fake Police Officer Arrested For Extortion

A fake Police officer has been arrested at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region for extorting monies from people to recruit them into the Ghana Police Service. According to the deputy Central Regional Police PRO Sargent Isaac Evans Anttie, on the 25th February 2021, the Mankessim Divisional Police

Command received information that a 28 year old Nana Opare, an unemployed and resident at Mankessim was going round and presenting himself as one of the senior police officers at the District/Divisional Headquarters, Mankessim that he can assist anyone who wants to be enlisted into the Ghana Police Service. That he has used

such false information to defraud a lot of people in the Mankessim and its environs also with various sums of money. The suspect, Nana Opare is in Police custody assisting with investigation. The Police urged anyone who has been defrauded or fallen victim to the suspect in this regard to report all to the Mankessim Divisional Police or the nearest police station.