The Ghana Police Service has firmly denied widespread media reports suggesting that four of its officers were detained for arresting a Circuit Court judge over a traffic offence.
According to a statement issued by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and signed by Superintendent of Police Joseph Benefo Darkwah, Head of the Public Affairs Unit, such claims are not only false but “baseless and without merit.”
“We wish to categorically state that the claim is not just false, but it is baseless and without merit,” the CID said in a press release dated 23rd April 2025.
The clarification comes on the back of a petition received by the CID on April 7, 2025, from a Circuit Court Judge.
The petition alleged that on 13th December 2024, four officers of the Adenta Divisional Police Command, led by Inspector Godwin Dey, harassed her, assaulted her court clerk, and wrongfully towed her vehicle from the frontage of the Adenta Court Complex to the Adenta Police Station.
“She further noted that though a formal complaint was lodged at the Adenta Divisional Command, she had not yet received a response,” the statement added.
Following the petition, the CID began an investigation and invited the officers named in the complaint—Inspector Francis Adjei, G/Sgt. Dasebre Oti Boateng, and G/Cpl Jonah Ajubulisa—to the CID Headquarters.
“They were identified and invited… and given the opportunity to tell their side of the story. They left the CID Headquarters immediately after their statements were taken,” the statement clarified.
The CID stressed that “at no point were the officers detained as has been falsely reported.”
“We therefore urge the public to disregard the publication and treat it as false and without any basis,” the statement concluded.
