A 54-year-old dismissed police officer, Kofi Boakye Frimpong, has been convicted by the Ashaiman District Court for pretending to be in active service.
The court, presided over by His Honour Derick Pardden Eshun, convicted him on his own plea of guilty to the charge of falsely pretending to be a public officer (police officer), the Ghana News Agency reported.
The convict is said to have pleaded with the court for leniency following his conviction.
The court, however, deferred his sentencing to October 14, 2025, and remanded him into custody pending his reappearance.
The prosecution’s brief facts presented by Inspector Henry Nartey Tetteh, said the complainants, police officers at Zenu-Attadeka MTTD, arrested the convict on September 17, 2025 and sent him to the police station.
It states that while at their duty point at the Zenu Star Fuel Station on the same day at about 9am, the complainants stopped Frimpong who was fully dressed in a tactical black long-sleeved police uniform with a chief inspector’s rank badge.
The prosecution indicated that the officers, suspecting that he might not be a police officer engaged him briefly in a conversation, stating that during the interaction, Frimpong suddenly jumped onto a motorbike and instructed the rider to speed off.
This heightened the police officers’ suspicion and they subsequently gave him a chase, resulting in his arrest.
The facts added that upon interrogation, it was established that Frimpong is a dismissed chief inspector who relocated to Ashaiman and was still wearing a police uniform and holding himself out as a police officer.
He was subsequently charged with the offence and dragged to court while the investigation continued.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak