Police issues crime alert

The Accra Regional Police Command has admonished the general public to be extra cautious especially during transactions at various financial institutions as robberies by motor-riding assailants increase.

The police service said it was “concerned about recent activities of criminals who use motorbikes to trail and rob unsuspecting victims of their valuables at gunpoint and wish to draw the attention of the general public to the trend”.

The police said these criminals, who usually operate in pairs on motorbikes, closely monitor their targets, especially those coming from financial facilities, from a distance, attack, and rob them of their valuables amidst firing.

“The police are, therefore, calling on the general public to be extra vigilant of activities of motor riders who trail, loiter, or park in and around banking areas,” the police added.

The law enforcement agency noted that patrols and other crime-curbing strategies will be intensified but members of the public must be vigilant as well and report any suspicious activities to police on hotlines 0302773695 or 0302773906 or 191 or crime fighters’ hotline MTN and Vodafone short code 18555.