A nine-member team from the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), in collaboration with 20 operations officers of the Ghana Prisons Service, have embarked on a security search at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison at Nsawam in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exercise, which took place on Sunday, April 14, 2024, was to find and retrieve narcotic drugs from the facility. But at the end of the search, no narcotic drug was retrieved in and around the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NACOC officers went to the prison facility together with five security dogs. The search was conducted on inmates, cells, workshops, classrooms, church, mosque, hospital and every area that inmates could have access to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was also extended to the outer perimeter wall of the prison facility in search of any hidden narcotic drug. The sniffer dogs were released to the cells and every area of the facility, but no single narcotic drug was detected<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Second-in-Command of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison, Assistant Director of Prisons Andrews Osei, expressed appreciation to the NACOC officers for the exercise.\u00a0He assured the team that officers of the facility would continue their routine searches to ensure that narcotic drugs and other contraband did not get access to the prison environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n