As part of efforts to clamp down on the use of motorbikes for criminal activities within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis and to provide optimum security to ensure public safety in the Western Region, the Western Regional Motor Transport and Traffic Division (RMTTD) of the Ghana Police Service has embarked on night operations to bring perpetrators to book.
The night operations in all saw the arrest of fifty-four (54) motorcycles and tricycles (Pragya) in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis for various motor offences.
DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, Western Regional Head of Public Affairs Unit in an interview said on 30th July to 1st August, 2021 between 6pm to 10pm each night, Personnel from the RMTTD led by the Regional MTTD Commander, Chief Superintendent Isaac K. Sorkpah assisted by the Regional SWAT Team embarked on night operations to clamp down on the use of motorbikes for criminal activities within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
The operation, she said, was also aimed at arresting riders who violate the Road Traffic Regulations such as unregistered motorcycles and tricycles, riding without Rider’s License or Insurance, use of motorcycles without the needed documents and any violation of the Road Traffic Regulations.
She added that the offenders will be processed and those found to have violated the laws shall be arraigned at the Court.
DSP Adiku further announced that the operation which recorded no incident is ongoing and will be sustained.
It would be recalled that in April this year, the RMTTD embarked on a similar exercise and arrested and impounded 138 motorbikes and fifteen (15) tricycles in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis for various motor offences.
Eighteen persons were released after being found innocent while fifty-nine (59) processed for court with twenty-two (22) out of the 59 convicted to a total fine of five-thousand, two-hundred and eighty Ghana Cedis (GHc 5,280).
Personnel were deployed to eight (8) intersections, namely Kwame Nkrumah Roundabout, Pipeano, Paa Grant Roundabout, Effiakuma No. 9, Secko Junction, Kansaworado and Kwesimintsim under the command of Senior Police Officer (SPOs).
Meanwhile, the Western Regional branch of the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) in collaboration with the RMTTD, Driver and Vehicle Licenses Authority (DVLA) and the National Insurance Commission (NIC) recently held a two-day workshop aimed at enhancing the level of professionalism and knowledge of motor and tricycle owners in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in road safety.
All the road safety stakeholders in the Region resolved to hit the road to start massive operations toward raiding the road from illegal road users while those who would be found flouting the road safety laws are brought to book.
