Election 2020: Police identify over 6,000 hotspots for electoral violence
The Police IGP said security operatives have been deployed to these flashpoints
Jonas Danquah 
The Ghana Police Service has identified 6,178 flashpoints across the country where electoral violence could occur before or after the upcoming December 7 polls.
These identified flashpoints, as disclosed by Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh at press conference today [November 4, 2020] , are concentrated in the Greater Accra and the Ashanti regions which are the most densely populated regions.
The number of flashpoints have increased since the last elections in 2016 when the flashpoints were a little over 5,000.
The IGP noted that to ensure security and a peaceful election 52,794 joint security will be handling the election process across more than 38,000 polling centres.
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The security operatives will be drawn from the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Armed Forces, Customs Division and the Ghana Immigration Service. Personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) will also be involved.
The flashpoints were compiled based on incidents in previous elections, crime rate and happenings in during the last registration process.
Mr Oppong-Boanuh said the Police officers deployed to the polling stations will be uniformed and properly identified.
He added that there will be fully armed patrol teams and a standby force for re-enforcements when the need arises.
However, flashpoints will have a different arrangement with the patrol and standby force much closer to the voting areas.
