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The operation is targeting red light districts and sex workers hotels across the city.
The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command DSP Effia Tenge in a Citi News interview said the operation was part of an exercise aimed at reducing crime in the city.
âThe Cantonment police embarked on a two-day special operation to clamp down on persons soliciting for men or engaging in prostitution. The operation was carried out around the Togo embassy, the Oxford street and the Akufo-Addo roundabout among others.â
âIt is part of an ongoing exercise to raid the metropolis of criminal activities especially places noted for crime.â
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On Monday, the police arrested 17 commercial sex workers at Cantonments in Accra.
The suspects were apprehended with quantities of condoms at areas such as Togo Embassy and Osu Oxford Street.
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James Oppong Boanuh, IGP
DSP Efia Tenge said on September 7, between the 11:30am and 1:30 am, the Cantonment Police Command embarked on an operation to clamp down on activities of commercial sex workers indulging in alleged immoral activities within the Cantonment enclave.