The Ashanti Regional Police Command has warned it will deal with persons who are harassing a female police officer accused of masterminding the arrest of Richmond Osei, who was allegedly brutalised to death by police officers at Krofuom.

The death of the 22-year old triggered disturbances by irate youth in the area. Tensions heightened further after the autopsy report vindicated the police from the murder of Osei. The development fuelled clashes between the youth and police officers.

The police, in a press conference Monday, June 6, said it had taken notice of the intimidation of the female officer and, however, warned family members of the deceased to desist from such practice or face the law.

ACP Ampofo Duku, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, who addressed the media, said: “Information reaching this regional police headquarters has it that some family members of the late Richmond Osei, alias Opoku Tawiah, at Krofuom, Nana Fuduo Street, and other people from the vicinity have been going round accusing a police woman, Corporal Joyce Owusu Ansah, as the woman who accompanied the policemen on that fateful night, when Richard Osei met his untimely death.

“These aggrieved family members and some individuals have gone to the said police woman’s family house at Krofuom. Incidentally, she also has her family house at Krofuom with Schnapps and eggs and have invoked a curse on this policewoman and her family.

“The men and woman at the centre of Richmond’s death [have been] called to Accra for further interrogation and necessary action by the police headquarters but Joyce Owusu Ansah is still around doing her work because she has nothing to do with that incident. The fact that she is at the Airport Police Station doesn’t mean that she is party to whatever happened there, so our warning goes to anybody who will cause any breach of the peace, who will cause any harm, or who will even insult [and] verbally abuse the woman. [If] she reports to the police and we get that person arrested, the person will have it very tough.”