THE Eastern Regional Police Command has denied that policemen from the Effiduasi Police Station subjected a 96-year old woman reported missing to severe interrogation and assault, leading to her death.
An Accra-based media house in a report on April 16 attributed the cause of death of the unidentified woman to brutalities meted out to her by police personnel of the Effiduasi Police during interrogation.
A press release issued in Koforidua last Monday and signed by the Public Affairs Officer of the command, Chief Inspector Christopher Tawiah, said the police neither subjected the woman to severe interrogation nor beatings as was being speculated in some sections of the media.
According to the release, on April 13, this year, the Koforidua Railway Police Station officially received a report of a missing old lady.
It said while efforts were being made to trace the whereabouts of the woman, one Mr Osei Karikari reported to the Effiduase Police on April 16 that he had found an old lady sitting on a plot of land belonging to him at Aberewa-Nkwanta, a suburb of Koforidua.
The release said a team of policemen was therefore dispatched to the scene, where an old woman looking very weak and half naked was found lying down.
According to the statement, she passed away when she was being sent by the policemen to the Regional Hospital at Koforidua.
It said that the police were humane and would always live up to their ethics of protecting life and property.
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