Wenchi: Nchiraa Neighborhood Watchdog Committee Inaugurated

The Wenchi Municipal Command of the Ghana Police Service has inaugurated a 15 member Neighborhood Watchdog Committee to support the police to beef up security at Nchiraa and its surrounding communities.

The committee is expected to enhance security consciousness among traders and neighbors, encourage citizens' participation in crime prevention, and build a strong informant base to arrest perpetrators.

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony held at Nchiraa on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, the Wenchi Municipal Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr. Eric Avudzivi said they intended to form the committee somewhere in 2018 but failed to say, “thank God we can get our dreams to come through today”.
He reminded the Neighborhood Watchdog Committee that their roles as committee members do not permit them to take law enforcement actions, cause unlawful arrest, carry weapons, detain and brutalize suspects.

DSP. Mr. Eric Avudzivi advised the committee members not to take the law into their own hands by meting out instant justice to suspected criminals they arrest but rather endeavor to hand them over to the police for investigation and prosecution.

He said, “the Neighborhood Watchdog Committee was very necessary because it will help bring peace and unity to Nchiraa and its environs”.
He seized the opportunity to make a passionate appeal to individuals and benevolent organizations to support the Nchiraa Neighborhood Watchdog Committee financially to deliver their duties.

Mr. Albert Asubonteng is popularly known as The Messenger, a politician and philanthropist who graced the occasion supported the committee with an amount of GH¢ 500.00 to help their operations.

Public Relations Officer of the committee, Mr. Nketiah George on behalf of his colleagues thanked the Wenchi Municipal Police Command for mandating them to work with the police to combat crimes and other illegal activities.

He pledged that they will do their best to help protect lives and properties at Nchiraa and its surrounding communities.

Crime in recent times has become sophisticated within the Nchiraa enclaves that the police need to work extra harder and adopt modern community engagement strategies to be a step ahead of criminals.

On Saturday, February 27, 2021, Erica Adufa a 25-year-old nurse working at the Nchiraa Health Center was shot dead when she was traveling to Nchiraa from Subinso II in an Opel Astra cab when the perpetrators of their heinous crime shot at the taxi cab.