DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong speaking at the Emile Short Commission of Inquiries have stated that, the political parties must stay away from interfering with the activities of National Security.

According to him, the solution to such distrust in the nation's security by the political parties is to focus on their politics and allow the security to do their work.

He said, “Politicians should do politics and allow security men to do security work. I don’t know how possible and feasible that will be. But if the politicians take their hands off security and allow the security men to do their work without any form of hindrance then I think this will be sustained.”

According to the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, the political parties lack trust in the police service when they are out of power because the influence they have when in power becomes snatched from them ones they lose the power.

He said, upon being asked whether it is true that opposition parties lack confidence in the police, “that is true. When they [opposition parties] are in government, they trust us [police] but when they are not in government, they don’t trust us. The fact is when they are in government, they have some influences from the police; so when out of government they don’t have that, they become afraid and apprehensive because the powers they used when they were in power will be used against them, so they become afraid of their own shadows.”

Mr Sarpong however debunked the claims that the East Legon Police Commander, DSP George Lysander Asare was exempted from security operations on the day of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections was not true.

He stated, “that is not true [that we sidelined him]… When the election was going on and he reported the shooting incident to me, I told him to take care of the situation because it falls within his command".

According to him DSP  George Lysander Asare was the first on the list of persons selected to be part of the election task force but was not assigned any specific polling station.

He added that he a sent messages to all the district commanders via WhatsApp [the day before the election] to be present on the day of the election but DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong did not respond to his message, but he was expected to be with the patrol team.