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Crime in Ghana is investigated by the Ghana Police Service. Crime by type. Murder. Ghana had a murder rate of 1.68 per 100,000 population in 2011. [1] Corruption ...
Between 2016 and 2018, the country lost over US$200 million to recorded cyber crime cases. According to the Ghana Police Service, more than half of these reported cases were linked to fraud. [11] Police also recorded an increase in cyber crimes in the country from 116 in 2016 to 412 in 2017 and further to 558 in 2018. [12]
On May 17, 2022, one person was shot and killed by the security personnel in Nkoranza, in the Bono East Region of Ghana and nine others were injured when the youth in the area went on rampage and attacked the Municipal Police headquarters. [1] [2] [3] [4]
A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a case that started in 2017 and shed light on ...
On 20 May 2021, a group of LGBT+ rights advocates (16 women and five men) held a meeting in the city of Ho in the southeastern Volta Region of Ghana. Meeting at a hotel for nurses and midwives, the group had met to share information on documenting LGBT+ rights violations in Ghana and had brought a number of flyers with them, including ones on "Coming out" and "All about Trans."
On February 5, 2022, the Government of Ghana presented a check of GHS500,000 to the two families who lost their members during the shooting. Each family received GHS250,000 each. Each family received GHS250,000 each.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) was established in 2018 as the gold standard and flagship specialised independent anti-corruption institution in Ghana, in pursuance of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption(UNCAC).The OSP has the object of investigating and prosecuting specific cases of alleged or suspected corruption and ...
Ghana last executed a criminal in 1993. The method of execution is by firing squad. [1] It is considered "abolitionist in practice." [2] Capital punishment was a mandatory sentence for certain ordinary criminal offenses until 2023. [3] Seven new death sentences were handed down in 2021, while 165 people were on death row in Ghana at the end of ...