Police Service Decentralises Criminal Clearance Service

Hajara FuseiniMay 19, 2023

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The Ashanti Regional Police Head Quarter in Kumasi, is pictured on June 7, 2019. - The Canadians, charity volunteers aged 19 and 20, were taken on the evening of June 4, in Kumasi, Ghana's second city, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) northwest of the capital Accra, David Eklu, the assistant commissioner of police said in a statement. "Police Command is investigating a complaint of kidnapping at Ahodwo, Kumasi Royal Golf Club, at 8:25 pm on 4 June, 2019, where two women of Canadian nationality were kidnapped," Eklu said. Eklu told AFP the two kidnapped women had been travelling in an Uber with a third Canadian woman. When they reached their destination, the pair got out of the taxi first and were taken, he said. The third woman then went to alert the police with the Uber driver. (Photo by MAHMUD MOHAMMED-NURUDEEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MAHMUD MOHAMMED-NURUDEEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Persons who require information about a filed criminal case no longer need to travel to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service in the Greater Accra Region to access it.

This is because the Police Service has decentralised criminal clearance services in the country.

This service will be available at the 25 Police regions effective Monday, May 22.

It is part of the Ghana Police Service’s transformational agenda to improve the delivery of policing services to the public.

“The decentralisation of the criminal clearance process is expected to make the service more accessible and convenient for individuals across the country, thereby bringing another policing service closer to the doorstep of the public,” it explained in a statement.

As defined by Law Insider, police clearance is a document from a state, territorial, federal or foreign government which identifies information, regarding an individual concerning an arrest which resulted in a filed criminal case.

The 25 police regional commands across the country include:
• Ahafo Regional Police Command- Goaso
• Bono Regional Police Command- Sunyani
• Bono East Regional Police Command-Techiman
• Ashanti Regional Police Command- Kumasi
• Ashanti South Regional Police Command- Bekwai
• Ashanti North Regional Police Command- Mampong
• Tema Regional Police Command- Tema
• Central Regional Police Command- Cape Coast
• Central East Regional Police Command- Kasoa
• Central North Regional Police Command- Assin Fosu
• Eastern Regional Police Command- Koforidua
• Eastern South Regional Police Command- Kibi
• Eastern North Regional Police Command- Mpraeso
• Northern Regional Police Command- Tamale
• North-East Regional Command- Nalerigu
• Savanah Regional Police Command- Damango
• Upper East Regional Police Command- Bolga
• Upper West Regional Police Command- Wa
• Volta Regional Police Command- Ho
• Volta North Regional Police Command- Hohoe
• Oti Regional Police Command- Dambai
• Western Regional Police Command-Takoradi
• Western Central Regional Police Command- Tarkwa
• Western North Regional Police Command- Sewi Wiawso
• Accra Regional Police Command- Nima Police Station

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