The Tema Regional Police Command says it cannot be held responsible for the killing of a suspected armed robber at Tema Community 3 on Saturday.
Police over the weekend uncovered a shooting range at Tema Community 3 where armed robbers do their shooting rehearsals before launching their attacks on innocent and law abiding citizens.
The suspected armed robbers had created their new improvised shooting range at the Ramsar site at Tema where they use empty plastic bottles as their targets.
They were busily rehearsing when the police stormed their hideout following a tip-off. The suspects upon seeing the police opened fire on them and the police returned fire killing one instantly.
Two others are currently on the run and are being hunted by the police. A total of 72 cartridges and several empty plastic bottles which served as targets for the shooting rehearsals were retrieved by the police.
But residents are angry at the Police for shooting to death of the suspected armed robber who they described as innocent.
The resident claim the deceased who is taxi driver was attending to nature’s call at the time he was shot to death.
However, the Tema Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng insist the police cannot be held responsible, as they had to defend themselves when their lives were in danger.
“We didn’t single him out to go kill him, It was a shoot out between the police and some civilians that we met at the Ramsar site. The question is that what was he doing there at that time?…he was attending to nature’s call when he had heard shootings going on? If these citizens have some problems with the police I think the best place for them to go is the Tema Regional Police Command.”
