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Police cautions salon operators on COVID-19
The Public Relations Officer of the Tema Regional Police Command, Chief Inspector Mrs. Stella Dede Dzakpasu has cautioned operators of beauty, hair and barber’s salons to desist from attending to their clients without wearing nose masks
She said the situation was more serious because the closeness between a client and the providers of the service created an atmosphere where the latter breathed on the former as they were usually seated on shorter seats thus compromising their health and safety.
She called on the Police and City authorities to focus their attention on salons to call them to order so as to prevent the shops from being places which spread the virus and stressed that salons were not exempted from COVID-19 protocols.
She has ,therefore, also advised them to limit the number of clients they attend to at a time to ensure reasonable physical distancing as part of efforts to curb the spread of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).
The advice followed an observation by “The Spectator” that many providers of these services in the Tema Metropolis and its environs flouted the directive of wearing face masks while attending to their clients.
They neither took the appropriate precautions to protect themselves, their co-workers nor clients with total disregard for all safety protocols.
Chief Inspector Dzakpasu said plans were in place to meet the leadership of such businesses to educate them on the need to take the protocols of the COVID-19 seriously so that their facilities did not serve as places that spread the virus.
A Client, Adjo Totso said she had been compelled to change her salon so many times because she observed that many salons did not like to ensure that their staff or apprentices put on their masks.
“I have been tagged as being a difficult person because I always insist that if you do not wear a mask you won’t do my hair. I cannot take chances” she said.
She said the Tema Regional Police Command was intensifying education but that should not be mistaken to mean that people could not be arrested for flouting the safety protocols.
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Shake up in Police: IGP reconstitutes Management Board
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohuno has today,
March 19, 2025 made the following changes.
The new command changes are expected to ensure effective management and
operational control of the Ghana Police Service.
The command changes are;
1. COP/Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, Director-General/R&P.
2. COP/Mr. Paul Manly Awini, Service Workshop, Accra.
3. COP/Mr. Daniel Kwame Afriyie, Director-General/PSO
4. COP/Dr. Ernest Kwabena Owusu, Director-General/SVCS
5. COP/Mr. Mohammed Fuseini Suraji, Director-General/NPD
6. COP/Dr. Sayibu Pabi Gariba, Director-General/Technical,
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NACOC arrests long-time drug target
An intelligence-led operation by the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, resulted in the arrest of a 56-year-old Nigerian, Uchechukwu Chima at Oyarifa, a suburb of Accra.
A statement signed by the Acting Director, Public Affairs and International Relations,Francis Opoku Amoah a search conducted by the NACOC team at the suspect’s hideout uncovered substances suspected to be narcotic drugs.
He added that field tests conducted on the suspected substance proved positive for cocaine and heroin, both narcotic drugs.
The suspected narcotic substances, with a total weight of about 192kg of cocaine and 0.42kg of heroin, are estimated at a street value of Two Million, One Hundred and Twenty-one Thousand, Six Hundred and Sixty United States Dollars (US$2.1 Million).
The suspect, Uchechukwu Chima who has been a target for NACOC for some time now, is noted to be the brain behind some seizures/arrests made by NACOC in the past.
NACOC, by this seizure and arrest, has taken this substantial quantity of drugs from the street, saving millions of lives of people who would have otherwise perished from abusing these hard drugs.
NACOC remains committed to making Ghana an unprofitable destination for drug trafficking and thus protecting the safety and well-being of all Ghanaians and the international community.
