The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, has directed the deployment of police personnel to vantage points in Kasoa in the Central Region to salvage the traffic situation there.

The IGP gave the directive when some top police officers from the Police Headquarters in Accra paid a working visit to Kasoa to assess the traffic problem bedevilling the municipality.

The deployment of personnel would extend as far as Buduburam while other measures were being put in place to maintain law and order in the area, according to the Chief Constable.

Mr Alhassan said, “In the interim, there is the need to put measures in place to immediately solve the traffic problem pending long term solution by government.”

The IGP and his team were received by the Kasoa Municipal Chief Executive, Dr Adams Nuhu, who briefed them about the traffic situation of the town.

He identified population growth, increase in the number of vehicles, lack of access routes, increase in the number of travellers who ply the Accra-Cape Coast-Takoradi corridor on weekends and increase in the number of people on market days as some of the factors which usually created congestion in the municipality.

The public have, therefore, been entreated to cooperate with the police and the municipal authority to deal with the problem.