LUC MASIAKA POLICE STATION IS UP TO THE TASK By Hassan Bruz Northern Bureau Chief This is the perception of most of the inhabitants of Koya and Masimera Chiefdoms. They now seem to have a sigh of relief since the assumption of office of Superintendent Gloria Macaulay as the Local Unit Commander of the Masiaka Police Station. Many are now of the firm belief that there are also a lot of decent, dedicated and hardworking Women in the Sierra Leone Police Force who can equally perform well as their Male Colleagues. Superintendent Gloria Macaulay was transferred from Kenema where she had served as Support Officer to succeed another Female Colleague who proceeded on a terminal leave. Although she is barely a few weeks old in her capacity as Local Unit Commander, yet she can boast of a number of remarkable achievements with the help of both the Police Partnership Board [PPD] and various Stakeholders in the respective Communities. The Local Unit Commander told Sierra Leone News Agency in an interview that she has been able to continue from the good standards set up by her predecessor in the maintenance of law and order in her area of responsibility. Superintendent Gloria said she started off with a series of sensitization meetings in which people were guided on their duties and responsibilities in which she zeroed with an appeal for collaborative efforts in the fight against criminal activities. She also used the opportunity to encourage Commercial Motor Bike Riders otherwise known as ‘Okada Riders’ to secure proper documentation for their Bikes, re-shape their dress code and to always ride with helmets. Speaking on some of the achievements so far made, Superintendent Gloria Macaulay said she has not only been pursuing Criminals in their hide outs and have them arrested, but has also harvested and destroyed a number of farms of cannabis /marijuana in her area of superintendence. Perhaps one of the most laudable achievements has to do with the arrest of one of the vehicles often used to hijack defenceless travellers. She made a particular reference to a Red and Yellow Nissan Saloon Car with registration number AIG 766 which was intercepted at the Mile 38 Police Check Point following a report that the driver and team on board that car had hijacked a lady along the Makeni/Masiaka Highway. She said the driver –Gibrilla Kabia of 18 Father Street, Makeni, Dauda Mansaray of 11 Upper Hook Street Kissy, and two women have now been detained to help the Police in the investigations. Assistant Superintendent Patrick S B Smart is the Support Officer at the Masiaka Police Station where the matter is being investigated. He said one of the two women found on board the Nissan Taxi car presented Margret Tellu of 27 Kissy Bye Pass Road and Isaha Kamara as her names while the other woman who gave her name as Marian Kamara has refused to state her address. All of the aforementioned persons are believed to have participated in the alleged rubbery case of one Masiray – business woman at 10 Famble Lane Makeni. She boarded the Taxi at Makoth on her way to Lunsar and ushered a place between the two in the front seat. While they were deep into the journey, one of the ladies cleverly drew the head tie and allowed it to fly out of the Car. Masiray asked the driver to stop the car, left the bag containing her money and dashed for the head tie. Upon her returned, she discovered that the bag containing her money and other items has been ransacked and dropped on the ground with some of the money scattered. She raised an alarm and insisted to know who did that and why. She was subsequently abandoned on the road while trying to demand explanations. But Masiray was brilliant enough to notice the Registration Number of the Taxi Car before the driver and his fellow rubbers could vanish. She quickly called to inform the Police at Masiaka who also passed on the information to the Commander at the Mile 38 Police Check Point, where the Rubbers were intercepted. The Support Officer further outlined a number of travellers that have suffered in a similar manner including one Ya Kaday –a business woman in Port Loko, who was rubbed over Thirteen Million Leones on her way to Freetown from Port Loko. Apart from one other woman who suffered a similarplight at Orkrorr Hill whose Three Hundred Thousand Leones was snatched away from her on the way to Msaiaka, he a white Female Lecturer at N’jala University recently left stranded along the Mile 91 / Masiaka Highway after her One Million and Five Hundred Thousand Leones was forcefully taken from her. He said all these matters are now under investigation and that the Complainants will be offered the opportunity to have a look at the suspects in custody so as to ascertain if they are those that rubbed them Below is the Photo of the LUC Masiaka- Supt. Gloria Macaulay and the intercepted Taxi Car ....
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:51:47 +0000