A security analyst, Mr Emmanuel Kutin has described the swoops by the police, military which saw many suspected criminals arrested in the Central and Western Regions yesterday as shameful and lazy.

A police cum military team on Thursday raided Buduburam near Kasoa in the Central Region and Sekondi in the Western Region, arresting 141 and 217 suspected criminals respectively.

According to the police in a statement released yesterday, the move was in response to intelligence they gathered and it formed part of a nationwide strategy to build and sustain confidence in the people.

But speaking in an interview monitored by ABC News, Mr Kutin disagreed with the move and subsequent assertions by the police, terming it as archaic and a violation of the rights of the affected people.

“Unfortunately that was a lazy way of fighting crime and if you look at swoops over the period, it is archaic. Taking swoop on innocent citizens violates their rights. When you are acting on intelligence, you don’t arrest innocent people. There is a clear distinction between intelligence and swoops. If you are acting on intelligence, you even do the operation and go out of the vicinity and nobody knows what is happening; so it is a lazy way,” he said.