Police officer who failed to stop at barrier crashes car, parcels of ‘Indian hemp’ found

A police officer with the Formed Police Unit in Tesano-Accra is under strict guard at the Peki Government Hospital after he crashed his car on the Kpeve mountains in the Volta Region.

According to reports, the police officer Identified as G/Sergeant Lotsu Agbeko, 36, was travelling to the Volta Region in his personal Toyota Corolla but refused to stop at the Have police barrier.

That however resulted in a hot chase by the personnel manning the barrier following his refusal of a signal to stop. But, unfortunately for him, he was involved in an accident in the process and had a fracture on his left hand.

A search was later conducted in his car and 84 parcels of substances suspected to be Indian hemp were found compressed in the boot.

He was then rushed to the nearby hospital and the substances according to the police have be retrieved.

Meanwhile, in a situational report on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, the police in Kpeve has said that the suspect, has been under guard since the incident on Saturday, June 11, 2022 around 12:30pm.

Watch video of the police officer involved in the accident below:

The substances have been retrieved.